Surprising output,can't understood.

[Ashok Pradhan]

When i run the following program it prints 12.123457 and please explain this why 12.123457.

class Test
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
 
Float f = new Float(12.123456789);
System.out.println(f);
}
}

[Harshit Rastogi]

when a values is assigned to Float class , internally it stores to the float primitive. So i guess the precision of the primitive float comes into the picture.
If somebody can throw some more light !!

[Mohammed Yousuff]

as Harshit said this is more to deal with memory allocated with the floating point variable....

any more thoughts ....

[marc weber]

That's exactly right. This loss of precision is a result of how floating-point values are stored.

See Some things you should know about floating-point arithmetic.
[ April 20, 2008: Message edited by: marc weber ]