Class OrdinateFormat

Hierarchy: Object , OrdinateFormat

public class OrdinateFormat

Formats numeric values for ordinates in a consistent, accurate way.

The format has the following characteristics:

It is consistent in all locales (in particular, the decimal separator is always a period)
Scientific notation is never output, even for very large numbers. This means that it is possible that output can contain a large number of digits.
The maximum number of decimal places reflects the available precision
NaN values are represented as "NaN"
Inf values are represented as "Inf" or "-Inf"

public OrdinateFormat()

Creates an OrdinateFormat using the default maximum number of fraction digits.

public OrdinateFormat(int maximumFractionDigits)

Creates an OrdinateFormat using the given maximum number of fraction digits.

Parameters:: maximumFractionDigits - maximumFractionDigits the maximum number of fraction digits to output

public static OrdinateFormat create(int maximumFractionDigits)

Creates a new formatter with the given maximum number of digits in the fraction portion of a number.

Parameters:: maximumFractionDigits - maximumFractionDigits the maximum number of fraction digits to output

public synchronized String format(double ord)

Returns a string representation of the given ordinate numeric value.