Large Numbers in Java

How would I go about doing calculations with extremely large numbers in Java?

I have tried long but that maxes out at 9223372036854775807, and when using an integer it does not save enough digits and therefore is not accurate enough for what I need.

Is there anyway around this?

Solution 1:

You can use the BigInteger class for integers and BigDecimal for numbers with decimal digits. Both classes are defined in java.math package.

Example:

BigInteger reallyBig = new BigInteger("1234567890123456890");
BigInteger notSoBig = new BigInteger("2743561234");
reallyBig = reallyBig.add(notSoBig);

Solution 2:

Use the BigInteger class that is a part of the Java library.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/math/BigInteger.html

Solution 3:

Here is an example which gets big numbers very quickly.

import java.math.BigInteger;

/*
250000th fib # is: 36356117010939561826426 .... 10243516470957309231046875
Time to compute: 3.5 seconds.
1000000th fib # is: 1953282128707757731632 .... 93411568996526838242546875
Time to compute: 58.1 seconds.
*/
public class Main {
    public static void main(String... args) {
        int place = args.length > 0 ? Integer.parseInt(args[0]) : 250 * 1000;
        long start = System.nanoTime();
        BigInteger fibNumber = fib(place);
        long time = System.nanoTime() - start;

        System.out.println(place + "th fib # is: " + fibNumber);
        System.out.printf("Time to compute: %5.1f seconds.%n", time / 1.0e9);
    }

    private static BigInteger fib(int place) {
        BigInteger a = new BigInteger("0");
        BigInteger b = new BigInteger("1");
        while (place-- > 1) {
            BigInteger t = b;
            b = a.add(b);
            a = t;
        }
        return b;
    }
}

Solution 4:

Checkout BigDecimal and BigInteger.

Solution 5:

import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.util.*;
class A
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        Scanner in=new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print("Enter The First Number= ");
        String a=in.next();
        System.out.print("Enter The Second Number= ");
        String b=in.next();

        BigInteger obj=new BigInteger(a);
        BigInteger obj1=new BigInteger(b);
        System.out.println("Sum="+obj.add(obj1));
    }
}