THE PACKAGE JAVA.LANG

java.lang.Double

20.10

Double.longBitsToDouble(0x7fefffffffffffffL)

20.10.3

public static final double NEGATIVE_INFINITY =  1.0/0.0;

The constant value of this field is the negative infinity of type

double

. It is equal

to the value returned by

Double.longBitsToDouble(0xfff0000000000000L)

.

20.10.4

public static final double POSITIVE_INFINITY = 1.0/0.0;

The constant value of this field is the positive infinity of type

double

. It is equal to

the value returned by

Double.longBitsToDouble(0x7ff0000000000000L)

.

20.10.5

public static final double NaN = 0.0/0.0;

The constant value of this field is the Not a Number of type

double

. It is equal to

the value returned by

Double.longBitsToDouble(0x7ff8000000000000L)

.

20.10.6

public Double(double value)

This constructor initializes a newly created

Double

 object so that it represents the

primitive value that is the argument.

20.10.7

public Double(String s)

throws NumberFormatException

This constructor initializes a newly created

Double

 object so that it represents the

floating point value of type

double

 represented by the string. The string is con 

verted to a

double

 value in exactly the manner used by the

valueOf

 method

( 20.9.17).

20.10.8

public String toString()

The primitive

double

 value represented by this

Double

 object is converted to a

string exactly as if by the method

toString

 of one argument ( 20.10.15).

Overrides the

toString

 method of

Object

 ( 20.1.2).

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