NumFormat.java Formats real numbers with DecimalFormat.

import java.text.*;

/** Formatting real numbers with DecimalFormat.
 *
 *  Taken from Core Web Programming from
 *  Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
 *  .
 *  © 2001 Marty Hall and Larry Brown;
 *  may be freely used or adapted.
 */

public class NumFormat {
  public static void main (String[] args) {
    DecimalFormat science = new DecimalFormat("0.000E0");
    DecimalFormat plain = new DecimalFormat("0.0000");

    for(double d=100.0; d<140.0; d*=1.10) {
      System.out.println("Scientific: " + science.format(d) +
                         " and Plain: " + plain.format(d));
    }
  }
}