cast Long to BigDecimal

Question

How can I cast Long to BigDecimal?

Answer 1

You should not use BigDecimal d = new BigDecimal(long); !!

The implementation in BigDecimal for longs is not precise. For financial applications this is critical!

But the implementation for the String argument is better! So use something like:

new BigDecimal(yourLong.toString());

There was a talk on http://www.parleys.com/ about this.