Getting Monetary Amounts Right
• Monetary amounts. In the early chapters, for convenience, we use type double to represent monetary amounts. Due to the potential for incorrect monetary calculations with type double, class BigDecimal (which is a bit more complex) should be used to represent monetary amounts. We demonstrate BigDecimal in Chapters 8 and 25.
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