Let us see how we can create BigDecimal values via a long. Here, we have set long values as a parameter to the BigDecimal constructor.
BigDecimal val1 = BigDecimal.valueOf(289L); BigDecimal val2 = BigDecimal.valueOf(299L);
We can also perform mathematical operations on it −
val2 = val2.subtract(val1);
The following is an example −
import java.math.BigDecimal; public class Demo { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { BigDecimal val1 = BigDecimal.valueOf(289L); BigDecimal val2 = BigDecimal.valueOf(299L); System.out.println("Value 1 : "+val1); System.out.println("Value 2 : "+val2); val2 = val2.subtract(val1); System.out.println("Result (Subtraction) = "+val2); } }
Value 1 : 289 Value 2 : 299 Result (Subtraction) = 10