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Java - BigInteger

naysayer · 2011-12-07 20:35:08

Anyone know the range of the java.math.BigInteger object? Google is not being helpful. Cheers!

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07-12-2011 9:35pm

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naysayer

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Anyone know the range of the java.math.BigInteger object?
Google is not being helpful. Cheers!

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#2 07-12-2011 11:22pm
jebuz

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The Java primitive variable type long can represent a larger, but still finite, range. Java's BigInteger class supports integers of unlimited size, though arithmetic operations on BigIntegers can be significantly slower than on int and long

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~asb/teaching/cs101-fall05/hws/hwj4/index.html

I found google quite helpful

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#3 08-12-2011 1:41am
naysayer

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Thanks jebuz, your googling skills are amongst the finest I've seen.

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