JAL-2377 avoid infinite loop formatting 1.0E-310

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / util / Format.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/util/Format.java b/src/jalview/util/Format.java
index 389afcd..bf52027 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/util/Format.java
+++ b/src/jalview/util/Format.java
@@ -884,21 +884,18 @@ public class Format
     String f = "";
     int e = 0;
     double dd = d;
-    double factor = 1;
 
     if (d != 0)
     {
       while (dd > 10)
       {
         e++;
-        factor /= 10;
         dd = dd / 10;
       }
 
       while (dd < 1)
       {
         e--;
-        factor *= 10;
         dd = dd * 10;
       }
     }
@@ -908,8 +905,7 @@ public class Format
       return fixed_format(d);
     }
 
-    d = d * factor;
-    f = f + fixed_format(d);
+    f = f + fixed_format(dd);
 
     if ((fmt == 'e') || (fmt == 'g'))
     {