As I discussed in that post, using the BigDecimal(double) constructor rarely does what one would expect when passed a float or double. For a double, the Java developer is typically better off ...

A float or long can also work out ... The modified program using BigDecimal is shown here. Each calculation requires working with another BigDecimal and setting its scale to ensure the math ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between a float and double in Java is that a double can represent much larger ...

In the following example, the addition of 5.6 and 5.8 results in a value of 11.3999, not 11.4 For the most precise double calculations in Java, the JDK provides a special class named BigDecimal. For ...