BigDecimalis an immutable, arbitrary-precision signed decimal number. It contains an arbitrary precision integer unscaled value and a 32-bit integer scale. For example, in the value 10.11, 1011 is the unscaled value, and 2 is the scale. TheBigDecimalclass provides operations for arithmetic, scale manipulation, rounding, comparison, hashing, and format conversion. Read more about theBigDecimalclass here.
The signum method of the BigDecimal class retrieves the signum function of a BigDecimal value.
public int signum()
This method does not take any arguments.
This method returns:
1 if the value of BiDecimal is greater than zero.
-1 if the value of BiDecimal is less than zero.
0 if the value of BiDecimal is equal to zero.
The example below demonstrates how to use the signum method.
import java.math.BigDecimal;class BigDecimalRemainderExample {public static void main( String args[] ) {BigDecimal val1 = new BigDecimal("10.10");BigDecimal val2 = new BigDecimal("-10.10");BigDecimal val3 = new BigDecimal("0.0");System.out.println("Signum of " + val1 + " :"+ val1.signum());System.out.println("Signum of " + val2 + " : "+ val2.signum());System.out.println("Signum of " + val3 + " : "+ val3.signum());}}
In the above code:
We imported the BigDecimal class.
We created three BigDecimal
objects, val1 with a value of 10.10, val2 with a value of -10.10, and val3 with a value of 0.0.
We called the signum method on the created BigDeciaml objects.
val1 object, we get 1 as the result because val1 > 0.val2 object, we get -1 as the result because val2 < 0.val3 object, we get 0 as the result because val3 = 0.