If all of the values fall within the range of a float, it makes sense to use the smaller Java data type in this situation, otherwise the array elements needlessly consume memory.

It’s like a Java interface, which is a data type that’s disconnected from any ... then deciding the range of n values that will be input to these functions (and, hence, the algorithms).

Listing 3. Excerpts from the meta-file that specifies the Java data types of various elements declared in the keplerian_elements.dtd file.

To simplify display, you can use %d printf notation to format a Java double’s precision to two decimal places, while internally the double variable’s precision is maintained. The lower range of a ...