Java Tricky Program 20 - double subtraction and BigDecimal

What will be result of "double d = 1.10 - 1.00", check it out in a simple java program. And why we should use BigDecimal in most of the places with arithmetic operations in Java.

[confidentraka]

Thanks for your tutorials. These are some small basics which really help when we are going forward with all the J2ee versions.

[anildesai]

Thanks for the tip. Only caveat is that it requires creating multiple objects incase of BigDecimal.

[priyanshucool]

same with System.out.println(2.0-1.10) will result .890000 instead of 0.90, one of the puzzle from java puzzlers