Very small numbers

Question

I am writing a Mandelbrot viewer. Everything works except when you get to a very high zoom the image starts to pixilate about at about zoom 10^(-14). I am guessing because i run out of memory in my double vars. What can i use that will allow me to use very small numbers?

I need to use the java.lang.Math class and i dont think that supports bigdecimal

Answer 1

If you really need arbitrary precision, your best option is probably BigDecimal.

If you're concerned with efficiency, I suspect you would be better off trying to scale your values and keep them in the neighborhood of 1.0.