RFR: JDK-8283143: Use minimal-length literals to initialize PI and E constants

[Raffaello Giulietti]

The new decimal literals have indeed the minimal length required to 
recover the doubles closest to the true mathematical values.

Raffaello



On 3/15/22 02:43, Joe Darcy wrote:
> Depending on the range of the number line, a double value has between 15 and 17 digits of decimal precision. The literals used to initialize Math.PI and Math.E have several digits more precision than that maximum.
> 
> That is potentially confusing to readers of the code and the minimum length strings to exactly represent the value in question should be used instead.
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> Commit messages:
>   - JDK-8283143: Use minimal-length literals to initialize PI and E constants
> 
> Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7814/files
>   Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=7814&range=00
>    Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8283143
>    Stats: 4 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 4 mod
>    Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7814.diff
>    Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/7814/head:pull/7814
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> PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7814