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Character Values Inside of Number Values
I am curious... the Java API is able to return the apparent String "NaN" as a double value for non-real calculations.
How can one include characters in a double value?
Say if you wanted to design an implementation of imaginaries in Java, you would need to be able to have "i" in a value, how can you make 2i a valid Number?
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Re: Character Values Inside of Number Values
NaN is not a string, but a constant double value (read the API on Double for the value). There are many implementations on complex number math - google these terms for the examples.
Re: Character Values Inside of Number Values
I have tried using the Double.longBitsToDouble method to convert a character to double but no matter what I pass it, it won't return the character.Originally Posted by copeg
I have tried passing the character's bit value and hexadecimal. Both do not return a letter.
Re: Character Values Inside of Number Values
See the API for double....Double.longBitsToDouble returns a double, not a character.
Re: Character Values Inside of Number Values
But the value NaN prints as "NaN"
How can you define something as a double value, when it has a character form in print?
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