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Foil 16 The java.lang.Math class

From Java Tutorial - Spring 1997 Part 4: Multithreading, useful Java classes, I/O, Networking, and the future Peking Tutorial, Web Certificate -- Spring-Summer 1997. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
This class provides the standard mathematical functions, using types int, long, float and double as appropriate.
It is a static class, meaning that you only use the methods, never creating objects from this class.
The methods include
  • IEEEremainder, abs, ceil, cos, exp, floor, log, max, min, pow, random, sin, sqrt, and other trig functions.
  • The random number generator is a linear congruential generator, which is fast but not random enough for many scientific applications.

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