Chapter 8. Numbers and Strings
Numbers
This chapter begins with a discussion of the Number[1] class in the java.lang package, its subclasses, and the situations where you would use instantiations of these classes rather than the primitive number types.
This section also presents the PrintStream[2] and DecimalFormat[3] classes, which provide methods for writing formatted numerical output.
Finally, the Math[4] class in java.lang is discussed. It contains mathematical functions to complement the operators built into the language. This class has methods for the trigonometric functions, exponential functions, and so forth.
The Numbers Classes
When working with numbers, most of the time you use the primitive types in your code. For example:
int i = 500; float ...
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