Both data types represent numbers with decimals, but a float is 32 bits in size while a double ... or a calculation generates a floating point number, Java treats the number as a double. For example, ...

In the following example, the addition of 5.6 and 5.8 results in a value of 11.3999, not 11.4 For the most precise double calculations in Java, the JDK provides a special class named BigDecimal. For ...