How the BigDecimal Class Helps Java Get its Arithmetic Right

If you use Java for simple business arithmetic, you might be seeing some errors. It's not your fault, it's a floating-point problem -- and this article explains how to use Java's BigDecimal class to fix it. It is excerpted from the book Murach's Beginning Java 2, JDK 5, written by Doug Lowe, Joel Murach, and Andrea Steelman (Murach Publishing, 2005; ISBN: 1890774294).


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