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Re:Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308 by Sandman on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @01:42PM (#2166663)
Yes, but fortunately, there is not much reason why anybody would use double when developing a banking system.
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Re:Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308 by yyyy on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @02:35PM (#2171710)
They don't have to use it directly.

GET / HTTP/1.0

Accept-Language: en;q=2.2250738585072012e-308

If you're running Tomcat and you call getLocale() on that servlet request, you're toast.

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Re:Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308 by wingo on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @09:26AM (#2192917)
This is precisely why "q" is defined only to accept three digits after the decimal. It's actually not a floating point number, and anyone who parses it as such is just being lazy.

"q" is more properly represented natively as an integer between 0 and 1000.

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Re:Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308 by xcombelle on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @10:38AM (#2226747)
apparently q is not properly parsed in JBoss which is based on apache tomcat scaring not?
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