Integrated: JDK-8283143: Use minimal-length literals to initialize PI and E constants
Joe Darcy
darcy at openjdk.java.net
Tue Mar 15 16:09:29 UTC 2022
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 01:36:14 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> 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.
This pull request has now been integrated.
Changeset: 671b6efd
Author: Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org>
URL: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/671b6efd6126384c0630d1cd84f53f52995e68d8
Stats: 5 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 5 mod
8283143: Use minimal-length literals to initialize PI and E constants
Reviewed-by: smarks
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7814
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