malformed floating point literal

if i do this, its ok:

double c = 5e+2;

but if instead i do this, gives me that error msg:

int k1 = (int)(Math.random() * 3);

int ax = k1;

double c = 5e+ax;

why?

thanks in advance

[392 byte] By [newonthisa] at [2007-9-30 2:26:25]