/****************************************************************************
* Name:        RoundoffError
* Author:      Lara Wear
* Date:        Dec 15, 2004
* Purpose:     To display the round-off effects of floating point arithmetic
*****************************************************************************/

public class RoundoffError {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // method variables
        double x;
        double y;
        double z;

        x = 1000 / 3.0;
        System.out.println("1000 / 3.0 = " + x);
        y = x - 333.0;
        System.out.println("x - 333.0 = " + y);
        z = 3 * y - 1.0;
        System.out.println("3*y - 1.0 = " + z);
        if (z == 0) {
            System.out.println("z is zero");
        } // if
        else { 
            System.out.println("z is not zero");
        } // else
    } //main

} //RoundoffError