Conversion from Long to Double in Java

Question

Is there any way to convert a Long data type to Double or double?

For example, I need to convert 15552451L to a

Answer 1

Are you looking for the binary conversion?

double result = Double.longBitsToDouble(15552451L);

This will give you the double with the same bit pattern as the long literal.

Binary or hexadecimal literals will come in handy, here. Here are some examples.

double nan = Double.longBitsToDouble(0xfff0000000000001L);
double positiveInfinity = Double.longBitsToDouble(0x7ff0000000000000L);
double positiveInfinity = Double.longBitsToDouble(0xfff0000000000000L);

(See Double.longBitsToDouble(long))

You also can get the long back with

long bits = Double.doubleToRawLongBits(Double.NaN);

(See Double.doubleToRawLongBits(double))