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Java Traps: Big Decimal

Fortunately, it’s now almost common sense for programmers not to use the simple types float’s and double’s for representing monetary values (or any other value preferably due to the impression surrounded with these types. float’s and double’s are further restricted by a fixed set of bits to represent them, hence only a limited set of numbers can be held in these types. Armed with this knowledge, fun code examples can be produced such as the one from

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