Not all Java developers need the precision that BigDecimal offers. However, those who do usually don’t have to use BigDecimal for very long before running into the java.lang.ArithmeticException with ...
In a previous blog post, I looked at the subtle handling required to handle double with BigDecimal. As I discussed in that post, using the BigDecimal(double) constructor rarely does what one would ...
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