Get all decimal places in a number after division

Question

I am currently using the BigDecimal and it is giving me more decimals but not nearly enough for what I am trying to do. I need to be able to get all the way to the 10^6 digit. This is my current code

BigDecimal num = new BigDecimal(103993/33102.0);
    pw.println(num.toString());

and it outputs 3.14159265301190249175533608649857342243194580078125

where the number actually has a lot more decimals: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=103993%2F33102

Answer 1

You are loosing the precision when evaluating this:

103993/33102.0

as a double division. Actually, the following:

BigDecimal num = new BigDecimal(103993/33102.0);

is equivlent to:

double d = 103993/33102.0;
BigDecimal num = new BigDecimal(d);

instead, use:

int scale = 100;
BigDecimal num1 = new BigDecimal(103993);
BigDecimal num2 = new BigDecimal(33102);
System.out.println(num1.divide(num2, scale, RoundingMode.HALF_UP).toString());

OUTPUT:

3.1415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737296840070086399613316415926530119026040722614947737