how does Java convert floats to strings

Question

Here\'s what I\'m looking at:

float p=1.15f;
BigDecimal bdp=new BigDecimal(p);
float q=1.1499999f;
float r=1.14999999f;

System.out.println(p);   //1.15
Syst         


        

Answer 1

From the JLS, 4.2.4. Floating-Point Operations:

The Java programming language requires that floating-point arithmetic behave as if every floating-point operator rounded its floating-point result to the result precision. Inexact results must be rounded to the representable value nearest to the infinitely precise result; if the two nearest representable values are equally near, the one with its least significant bit zero is chosen. This is the IEEE 754 standard's default rounding mode known as round to nearest.

The Java programming language uses round toward zero when converting a floating value to an integer (§5.1.3), which acts, in this case, as though the number were truncated, discarding the mantissa bits. Rounding toward zero chooses at its result the format's value closest to and no greater in magnitude than the infinitely precise result.