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weinzierl on Sept 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: 64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybo...

"For accounting you should only ever use arbitrary precision math library"

I'm a bit surprised by this advice. I thought the common wisdom was to use a decimal type like BigDecimal in Java.

cwmma on Sept 19, 2023 | [–]

BigDecimal is an arbitrary precision type so using BigDecimal is how you would follow said advice in Java.

c2h5oh on Sept 19, 2023 | [–]

BitInteger and BigDecimal are arbitrary precision types in Java

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