From b0646c93d7a2aece16b099ab805af2d58753ac79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Camil Staps
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:57:28 +0100
Subject: Various small enhancements

---
 Week7/src/polynomial/Term.java | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Week7/src/polynomial/Term.java')

diff --git a/Week7/src/polynomial/Term.java b/Week7/src/polynomial/Term.java
index 7cde927..60c6381 100644
--- a/Week7/src/polynomial/Term.java
+++ b/Week7/src/polynomial/Term.java
@@ -81,17 +81,21 @@ public class Term {
     /**
      * Converts a term into a readable representation the standard format is
      * %fx^%d
+     * I changed the implementation to remove trailing zeroes from the coefficient.
      *
      * @return the string representing the term
      */
     @Override
     public String toString() {
+        String nice_coefficient = Double.toString(coefficient);
+        if (Math.round(coefficient) == coefficient)
+            nice_coefficient =  Integer.toString((int) coefficient);
         if (exponent == 0) {
-            return String.format("%f", coefficient, exponent);
+            return String.format("%s", nice_coefficient, exponent);
         } else if (exponent == 1) {
-            return String.format("%fx", coefficient, exponent);
+            return String.format("%sx", nice_coefficient, exponent);
         } else {
-            return String.format("%fx^%d", coefficient, exponent);
+            return String.format("%sx^%d", nice_coefficient, exponent);
         }
     }
 
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