Using BufferedReader to read input number from user

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This example shows how to read input from console using the BufferedReader class. The BufferedReader has a neat method called readLine() that reads all the input characters into a string when the user hits the Enter button instead of reading byte by byte.
This example takes the input string and parses it into a variable of type Double and then prints out the square root of that number.
This is the code:

package com.javadb.examples;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

/**
*
* @author www.javadb.com
*/
public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        try {

            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
            String input = reader.readLine();

            double number = Double.parseDouble(input);

            System.out.println("Square root of input number " + input + " is: " + Math.sqrt(number));

            //Not really necessary in this case but since we want to
            //write clean code...
            reader.close();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            System.out.println("Input by user was not a number.");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

So if we for example type in 12345, the output from the program looks like:

Square root of input number 12345 is: 111.1080555135405

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