Returns the value of this Double as a byte (by casting to a byte).

  Returns the value of this Double as a byte (by
casting to a byte).
Returns: the double value represented by this object converted to type byte
Since: JDK1.1

  Compares the two specified double values.

  Compares the two specified double values. The sign
of the integer value returned is the same as that of the
integer that would be returned by the call:

    new Double(d1).compareTo(new Double(d2))
 

Returns: the value 0 if d1 is numerically equal to d2; a value less than 0 if d1 is numerically less than d2; and a value greater than 0 if d1 is numerically greater than d2.
Parameters:
- d1 - the first double to compare
- d2 - the second double to compare
Since: 1.4

  Compares two Double objects numerically.

  Compares two Double objects numerically. There
are two ways in which comparisons performed by this method
differ from those performed by the Java language numerical
comparison operators (<, <=, ==, >= >)
when applied to primitive double values:

• 
  Double.NaN is considered by this method
  to be equal to itself and greater than all other
  double values (including
  Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY).
  
• 
  0.0d is considered by this method to be greater
  than -0.0d.
  

This ensures that the natural ordering of
Double objects imposed by this method is consistent
with equals.
Returns: the value 0 if anotherDouble is numerically equal to this Double; a value less than 0 if this Double is numerically less than anotherDouble; and a value greater than 0 if this Double is numerically greater than anotherDouble.
Parameters:
- anotherDouble - the Double to be compared.
Since: 1.2

  Returns a representation of the specified floating-point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit layout.

  Returns a representation of the specified floating-point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit layout.

Bit 63 (the bit that is selected by the mask 0x8000000000000000L) represents the sign of the floating-point number. Bits 62-52 (the bits that are selected by the mask 0x7ff0000000000000L) represent the exponent. Bits 51-0 (the bits that are selected by the mask 0x000fffffffffffffL) represent the significand (sometimes called the mantissa) of the floating-point number.

If the argument is positive infinity, the result is 0x7ff0000000000000L.

If the argument is negative infinity, the result is 0xfff0000000000000L.

If the argument is NaN, the result is 0x7ff8000000000000L.

In all cases, the result is a long integer that, when given to the Double.longBitsToDouble(long) method, will produce a floating-point value the same as the argument to doubleToLongBits (except all NaN values are collapsed to a single "canonical" NaN value).
Returns: the bits that represent the floating-point number.
Parameters:
- value - a double precision floating-point number.

  Returns a representation of the specified floating-point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit layout, preserving Not-a-Number (NaN) values.

  Returns a representation of the specified floating-point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit layout, preserving Not-a-Number (NaN) values.

Bit 63 (the bit that is selected by the mask 0x8000000000000000L) represents the sign of the floating-point number. Bits 62-52 (the bits that are selected by the mask 0x7ff0000000000000L) represent the exponent. Bits 51-0 (the bits that are selected by the mask 0x000fffffffffffffL) represent the significand (sometimes called the mantissa) of the floating-point number.

If the argument is positive infinity, the result is 0x7ff0000000000000L.

If the argument is negative infinity, the result is 0xfff0000000000000L.

If the argument is NaN, the result is the long integer representing the actual NaN value. Unlike the doubleToLongBits method, doubleToRawLongBits does not collapse all the bit patterns encoding a NaN to a single "canonical" NaN value.

In all cases, the result is a long integer that, when given to the Double.longBitsToDouble(long) method, will produce a floating-point value the same as the argument to doubleToRawLongBits.
Returns: the bits that represent the floating-point number.
Parameters:
- value - a double precision floating-point number.
Since: 1.3

  Returns the double value of this Double object.

  Returns the double value of this
Double object.
Returns: the double value represented by this object

  Compares this object against the specified object.

  Compares this object against the specified object. The result is true if and only if the argument is not null and is a Double object that represents a double that has the same value as the double represented by this object. For this purpose, two double values are considered to be the same if and only if the method Double.doubleToLongBits(double) returns the identical long value when applied to each.

Note that in most cases, for two instances of class Double, d1 and d2, the value of d1.equals(d2) is true if and only if

   d1.doubleValue() == d2.doubleValue()
 

also has the value true. However, there are two exceptions:

• If d1 and d2 both represent Double.NaN, then the equals method returns true, even though Double.NaN==Double.NaN has the value false.
• If d1 represents +0.0 while d2 represents -0.0, or vice versa, the equal test has the value false, even though +0.0==-0.0 has the value true.

This definition allows hash tables to operate properly.
Returns: true if the objects are the same; false otherwise.
Parameters:
- obj - the object to compare with.
See Also: Double.doubleToLongBits(double),

  Returns the float value of this Double object.

  Returns the float value of this
Double object.
Returns: the double value represented by this object converted to type float
Since: JDK1.0

  Returns a hash code for this Double object.

  Returns a hash code for this Double object. The
result is the exclusive OR of the two halves of the
long integer bit representation, exactly as
produced by the method Double.doubleToLongBits(double), of
the primitive double value represented by this
Double object. That is, the hash code is the value
of the expression:

 (int)(v^(v>>>32))
 

where v is defined by:

 long v = Double.doubleToLongBits(this.doubleValue());
 

Returns: a hash code value for this object.

  Returns the value of this Double as an int (by casting to type int).

  Returns the value of this Double as an
int (by casting to type int).
Returns: the double value represented by this object converted to type int

  Returns true if this Double value is infinitely large in magnitude, false otherwise.

  Returns true if this Double value is
infinitely large in magnitude, false otherwise.
Returns: true if the value represented by this object is positive infinity or negative infinity; false otherwise.

  Returns true if the specified number is infinitely large in magnitude, false otherwise.

  Returns true if the specified number is infinitely
large in magnitude, false otherwise.
Returns: true if the value of the argument is positive infinity or negative infinity; false otherwise.
Parameters:
- v - the value to be tested.

  Returns true if this Double value is a Not-a-Number (NaN), false otherwise.

  Returns true if this Double value is
a Not-a-Number (NaN), false otherwise.
Returns: true if the value represented by this object is NaN; false otherwise.

  Returns true if the specified number is a Not-a-Number (NaN) value, false otherwise.

  Returns true if the specified number is a
Not-a-Number (NaN) value, false otherwise.
Returns: true if the value of the argument is NaN; false otherwise.
Parameters:
- v - the value to be tested.

  Returns the double value corresponding to a given bit representation.

  Returns the double value corresponding to a given bit representation. The argument is considered to be a representation of a floating-point value according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit layout.

If the argument is 0x7ff0000000000000L, the result is positive infinity.

If the argument is 0xfff0000000000000L, the result is negative infinity.

If the argument is any value in the range 0x7ff0000000000001L through 0x7fffffffffffffffL or in the range 0xfff0000000000001L through 0xffffffffffffffffL, the result is a NaN. No IEEE 754 floating-point operation provided by Java can distinguish between two NaN values of the same type with different bit patterns. Distinct values of NaN are only distinguishable by use of the Double.doubleToRawLongBits method.

In all other cases, let s, e, and m be three values that can be computed from the argument:

 int s = ((bits >> 63) == 0) ? 1 : -1;
 int e = (int)((bits >> 52) & 0x7ffL);
 long m = (e == 0) ?
                 (bits & 0xfffffffffffffL) << 1 :
                 (bits & 0xfffffffffffffL) | 0x10000000000000L;
 

Then the floating-point result equals the value of the mathematical expression s·m·2^e-1075.

Note that this method may not be able to return a double NaN with exactly same bit pattern as the long argument. IEEE 754 distinguishes between two kinds of NaNs, quiet NaNs and signaling NaNs. The differences between the two kinds of NaN are generally not visible in Java. Arithmetic operations on signaling NaNs turn them into quiet NaNs with a different, but often similar, bit pattern. However, on some processors merely copying a signaling NaN also performs that conversion. In particular, copying a signaling NaN to return it to the calling method may perform this conversion. So longBitsToDouble may not be able to return a double with a signaling NaN bit pattern. Consequently, for some long values, doubleToRawLongBits(longBitsToDouble(start)) may not equal start. Moreover, which particular bit patterns represent signaling NaNs is platform dependent; although all NaN bit patterns, quiet or signaling, must be in the NaN range identified above.
Returns: the double floating-point value with the same bit pattern.
Parameters:
- bits - any long integer.

  Returns the value of this Double as a long (by casting to type long).

  Returns the value of this Double as a
long (by casting to type long).
Returns: the double value represented by this object converted to type long

  Returns a new double initialized to the value represented by the specified String, as performed by the valueOf method of class Double.

  Returns a new double initialized to the value
represented by the specified String, as performed
by the valueOf method of class
Double.
Returns: the double value represented by the string argument.
Parameters:
- s - the string to be parsed.
Throws:
- NumberFormatException - if the string does not contain a parsable double.
Since: 1.2
See Also: Double.valueOf(String),

  Returns the value of this Double as a short (by casting to a short).

  Returns the value of this Double as a
short (by casting to a short).
Returns: the double value represented by this object converted to type short
Since: JDK1.1

  Returns a hexadecimal string representation of the double argument.

  Returns a hexadecimal string representation of the
double argument. All characters mentioned below
are ASCII characters.

• If the argument is NaN, the result is the string
  "NaN".
  
• Otherwise, the result is a string that represents the sign
  and magnitude of the argument. If the sign is negative, the
  first character of the result is '-'
  ('\u002D'); if the sign is positive, no sign
  character appears in the result. As for the magnitude m:
  
  
  
  
  • If m is infinity, it is represented by the string
    "Infinity"; thus, positive infinity produces the
    result "Infinity" and negative infinity produces
    the result "-Infinity".
    
    
  • If m is zero, it is represented by the string
    "0x0.0p0"; thus, negative zero produces the result
    "-0x0.0p0" and positive zero produces the result
    "0x0.0p0".
    
    
  • If m is a double value with a
    normalized representation, substrings are used to represent the
    significand and exponent fields. The significand is
    represented by the characters "0x1."
    followed by a lowercase hexadecimal representation of the rest
    of the significand as a fraction. Trailing zeros in the
    hexadecimal representation are removed unless all the digits
    are zero, in which case a single zero is used. Next, the
    exponent is represented by "p" followed
    by a decimal string of the unbiased exponent as if produced by
    a call to Integer.toString on the
    exponent value.
    
    
  • If m is a double value with a subnormal
    representation, the significand is represented by the
    characters "0x0." followed by a
    hexadecimal representation of the rest of the significand as a
    fraction. Trailing zeros in the hexadecimal representation are
    removed. Next, the exponent is represented by
    "p-1022". Note that there must be at
    least one nonzero digit in a subnormal significand.
    
    
  
  
  

Examples

Floating-point Value	Hexadecimal String
1.0	0x1.0p0
-1.0	-0x1.0p0
2.0	0x1.0p1
3.0	0x1.8p1
0.5	0x1.0p-1
0.25	0x1.0p-2
Double.MAX_VALUE	0x1.fffffffffffffp1023
Minimum Normal Value	0x1.0p-1022
Maximum Subnormal Value	0x0.fffffffffffffp-1022
Double.MIN_VALUE	0x0.0000000000001p-1022

Returns: a hex string representation of the argument.
Parameters:
- d - the double to be converted.
Since: 1.5

  Returns a string representation of this Double object.

  Returns a string representation of this Double object.
The primitive double value represented by this
object is converted to a string exactly as if by the method
toString of one argument.
Returns: a String representation of this object.
See Also: Double.toString(double),

  Returns a string representation of the double argument.

  Returns a string representation of the double argument. All characters mentioned below are ASCII characters.

• If the argument is NaN, the result is the string "NaN".
• Otherwise, the result is a string that represents the sign and magnitude (absolute value) of the argument. If the sign is negative, the first character of the result is '-' ('\u002D'); if the sign is positive, no sign character appears in the result. As for the magnitude m:
  • If m is infinity, it is represented by the characters "Infinity"; thus, positive infinity produces the result "Infinity" and negative infinity produces the result "-Infinity".
  • If m is zero, it is represented by the characters "0.0"; thus, negative zero produces the result "-0.0" and positive zero produces the result "0.0".
  • If m is greater than or equal to 10^-3 but less than 10⁷, then it is represented as the integer part of m, in decimal form with no leading zeroes, followed by '.' ('\u002E'), followed by one or more decimal digits representing the fractional part of m.
  • If m is less than 10^-3 or greater than or equal to 10⁷, then it is represented in so-called "computerized scientific notation." Let n be the unique integer such that 10ⁿ <= m < 10ⁿ⁺¹; then let a be the mathematically exact quotient of m and 10ⁿ so that 1 <= a < 10. The magnitude is then represented as the integer part of a, as a single decimal digit, followed by '.' ('\u002E'), followed by decimal digits representing the fractional part of a, followed by the letter 'E' ('\u0045'), followed by a representation of n as a decimal integer, as produced by the method Integer.toString(int).

How many digits must be printed for the fractional part of m or a? There must be at least one digit to represent the fractional part, and beyond that as many, but only as many, more digits as are needed to uniquely distinguish the argument value from adjacent values of type double. That is, suppose that x is the exact mathematical value represented by the decimal representation produced by this method for a finite nonzero argument d. Then d must be the double value nearest to x; or if two double values are equally close to x, then d must be one of them and the least significant bit of the significand of d must be 0.

To create localized string representations of a floating-point value, use subclasses of NumberFormat.
Returns: a string representation of the argument.
Parameters:
- d - the double to be converted.

  Returns a Double instance representing the specified double value.

  Returns a Double instance representing the specified
double value.
If a new Double instance is not required, this method
should generally be used in preference to the constructor
Double.Double(double), as this method is likely to yield
significantly better space and time performance by caching
frequently requested values.
Returns: a Double instance representing d.
Parameters:
- d - a double value.
Since: 1.5

  Returns a Double object holding the double value represented by the argument string s.

  Returns a Double object holding the double value represented by the argument string s.

If s is null, then a NullPointerException is thrown.

Leading and trailing whitespace characters in s are ignored. Whitespace is removed as if by the String.trim() method; that is, both ASCII space and control characters are removed. The rest of s should constitute a FloatValue as described by the lexical syntax rules:

FloatValue:

Sign_opt NaN

Sign_opt Infinity

Sign_opt FloatingPointLiteral

Sign_opt HexFloatingPointLiteral

SignedInteger

HexFloatingPointLiteral:

HexSignificand BinaryExponent FloatTypeSuffix_opt

HexSignificand:

HexNumeral

HexNumeral .

0x HexDigits_opt . HexDigits

0X HexDigits_opt . HexDigits

BinaryExponent:

BinaryExponentIndicator SignedInteger

BinaryExponentIndicator:

p

P

where Sign, FloatingPointLiteral, HexNumeral, HexDigits, SignedInteger and FloatTypeSuffix are as defined in the lexical structure sections of the of the Java Language Specification. If s does not have the form of a FloatValue, then a NumberFormatException is thrown. Otherwise, s is regarded as representing an exact decimal value in the usual "computerized scientific notation" or as an exact hexadecimal value; this exact numerical value is then conceptually converted to an "infinitely precise" binary value that is then rounded to type double by the usual round-to-nearest rule of IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic, which includes preserving the sign of a zero value. Finally, a Double object representing this double value is returned.

To interpret localized string representations of a floating-point value, use subclasses of NumberFormat.

Note that trailing format specifiers, specifiers that determine the type of a floating-point literal (1.0f is a float value; 1.0d is a double value), do not influence the results of this method. In other words, the numerical value of the input string is converted directly to the target floating-point type. The two-step sequence of conversions, string to float followed by float to double, is not equivalent to converting a string directly to double. For example, the float literal 0.1f is equal to the double value 0.10000000149011612; the float literal 0.1f represents a different numerical value than the double literal 0.1. (The numerical value 0.1 cannot be exactly represented in a binary floating-point number.)

To avoid calling this method on an invalid string and having a NumberFormatException be thrown, the regular expression below can be used to screen the input string:

        final String Digits     = "(\\p{Digit}+)";
  final String HexDigits  = "(\\p{XDigit}+)";
        // an exponent is 'e' or 'E' followed by an optionally 
        // signed decimal integer.
        final String Exp        = "[eE][+-]?"+Digits;
        final String fpRegex    =
            ("[\\x00-\\x20]*"+  // Optional leading "whitespace"
             "[+-]?(" + // Optional sign character
             "NaN|" +           // "NaN" string
             "Infinity|" +      // "Infinity" string

             // A decimal floating-point string representing a finite positive
             // number without a leading sign has at most five basic pieces:
             // Digits . Digits ExponentPart FloatTypeSuffix
             // 
             // Since this method allows integer-only strings as input
             // in addition to strings of floating-point literals, the
             // two sub-patterns below are simplifications of the grammar
             // productions from the Java Language Specification, 2nd 
             // edition, section 3.10.2.

             // Digits ._opt Digits_opt ExponentPart_opt FloatTypeSuffix_opt
             "((("+Digits+"(\\.)?("+Digits+"?)("+Exp+")?)|"+

             // . Digits ExponentPart_opt FloatTypeSuffix_opt
             "(\\.("+Digits+")("+Exp+")?)|"+

       // Hexadecimal strings
       "((" +
        // 0[xX] HexDigits ._opt BinaryExponent FloatTypeSuffix_opt
        "(0[xX]" + HexDigits + "(\\.)?)|" +

        // 0[xX] HexDigits_opt . HexDigits BinaryExponent FloatTypeSuffix_opt
        "(0[xX]" + HexDigits + "?(\\.)" + HexDigits + ")" +

        ")[pP][+-]?" + Digits + "))" +
             "[fFdD]?))" +
             "[\\x00-\\x20]*");// Optional trailing "whitespace"
            
  if (Pattern.matches(fpRegex, myString))
            Double.valueOf(myString); // Will not throw NumberFormatException
        else {
            // Perform suitable alternative action
        }
 

Returns: a Double object holding the value represented by the String argument.
Parameters:
- s - the string to be parsed.
Throws:
- NumberFormatException - if the string does not contain a parsable number.