Decimal arithmetic is indispensable in applications where precision is paramount, such as in financial, commercial and scientific domains. The inherent challenges of decimal computation, particularly ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: This is the first article in a two-part series on decimal representations and decimal arithmetic in general, and on Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) in particular. In this first installment, ...