Re: [xmlvm-users] CoreLocation and static double numbers

[Panayotis K. <pan...@pa...>]

On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Paul Poley wrote:

> Checking equality on double or float values is always fishy.  Unfortunately BigDecimal hasn't yet become a priority, but that would be a much safer implementation.  It doesn't lose precision, making it a good candidate for sensitive numbers, such as currency calculations.
> 
> If you do go down that route though, make sure to use "compareTo" and not "equals".  E.g. "5.40" does not "equals" "5.4", but "compareTo" will return 0.  Forgive me if I am stating anything you already know.
> 
> Paul Poley


The problem unfortunately is under Obj-C code and not Java.
:)

I agree with you, but right now, after doing some tests, I have the feeling that actually these values are used by iOS SDK more as a reference (and is checked for being larger/smaller than the specified value) and not really for equality.
Thus I believe that it will be safe to use double values, for now.