How to compare two double values in Java?

Basically you shouldn't do exact comparisons, you should do something like this:

double a = 1.000001;
double b = 0.000001;
double c = a-b;
if (Math.abs(c-1.0) <= 0.000001) {...}

You can use Double.compare; It compares the two specified double values.


        int mid = 10;
        for (double j = 2 * mid; j >= 0; j = j - 0.1) {
            if (j == mid) {
                System.out.println("Never happens"); // is NOT printed
            }

            if (Double.compare(j, mid) == 0) {
                System.out.println("No way!"); // is NOT printed
            }

            if (Math.abs(j - mid) < 1e-6) {
                System.out.println("Ha!"); // printed
            }
        }
        System.out.println("Gotcha!");

Instead of using doubles for decimal arithemetic, please use java.math.BigDecimal. It would produce the expected results.

For reference take a look at this stackoverflow question

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