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Barry Gaunt
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posted 11 years ago
It means that you can try to compute numbers like (BigInteger.TEN.pow(Integer.MAX_VALUE)).pow(Integer.MAX_VALUE) and your program will actually try to do it. 
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posted 11 years ago
I wonder if BigInteger supports decimal places.
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posted 11 years ago
If I recall correctly, the primitive int type uses 4 bytes and long uses 8 bytes. This means that the largest value you can hold in an int is just over two trillion and the largest value in a long is just under 2*10^19. If you need to store numbers larger than this, you can use BigInteger. That is what the statement means.
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posted 11 years ago
Oops, typing faster than I'm reading again. In my "first love" langauge, REXX, arbitrary precision includes decimal places.
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Layne Lund
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posted 11 years ago
That's what BigDecimal is for.
Originally posted by Stan James:
Oops, typing faster than I'm reading again. In my "first love" langauge, REXX, arbitrary precision includes decimal places.
That's what BigDecimal is for.
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