Chapter 16. Built-in Math Functions
Despite some ill-informed opinions to the contrary, Java is a programming language that is well suited to perform mathematical computations. The Math and StrictMath classes from the java.lang package offer a wide variety of built-in math methods. The capability includes methods to perform absolute value, power, square root, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, minimum, maximum, and rounding operations. The Java math methods are based on Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) mathematical algorithms.
The java.math package contains two classes that encapsulate variable precision integer and decimal values. These classes allow you to specify how numbers are rounded. The BigDecimal and BigInteger ...
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