Java.lang.StrictMath.nextAfter() Method

Description

The java.lang.StrictMath.nextAfter(float start, double direction) method returns the floating-point number adjacent to the first argument in the direction of the second argument. If both arguments compare as equal a value equivalent to the second argument is returned.It include these cases:

• If either argument is a NaN, then NaN is returned.
• If both arguments are signed zeros, direction is returned unchanged.
• If start is ±Float.MIN_VALUE and direction has a value such that the result should have a smaller magnitude, then a zero with the same sign as start is returned.
• If start is infinite and direction has a value such that the result should have a smaller magnitude, Float.MAX_VALUE with the same sign as start is returned.
• If start is equal to ±Float.MAX_VALUE and direction has a value such that the result should have a larger magnitude, an infinity with same sign as start is returned.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.lang.StrictMath.nextAfter() method

public static float nextAfter(float start, double direction)

Parameters

• start -- This is the starting floating-point value

• direction -- This is the value indicating which of start's neighbors or start should be returned

Return Value

This method returns the floating-point number adjacent to start in the direction of direction.

Exception

• NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.lang.StrictMath.nextAfter() method.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.lang.*;

public class StrictMathDemo {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
  
    float f1 = 90.2f, f2 = 0.0f;
       
    /* returns the floating-point number adjacent to the first argument in the
    direction of the second argument */  
    float retval = StrictMath.nextAfter(f1, 9.2d);
    System.out.println("NextAfter = " + retval);

    /* returns the floating-point number adjacent to the first argument in the
    direction of the second argument */
    retval = StrictMath.nextAfter(f2, 9.2d);
    System.out.println("NextAfter = " + retval);

    // returns 0 if both arguments is zero
    retval = StrictMath.nextAfter(f2, 0.0d);
    System.out.println("NextAfter = " + retval);
  }
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:

NextAfter = 90.19999
NextAfter = 1.4E-45
NextAfter = 0.0