Monthly Archives: June 2016

Adaptive precision in Newton’s Method

Posted on 2016-06-07 by admin

This describes a way to improve the performance of a BigDecimal based implementation of Newton’s Method by adapting the precision for every iteration to the maximum precision that is actually possible at this step. As showcase I have picked the … Continue reading →

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BigDecimalMath

Posted on 2016-06-02 by admin

Java 8 is out and there are still no Math functions for BigDecimal. After playing around with some implementations to calculate Pi I decided to write some implementation of BigDecimalMath to fill this gap. The result of this is available … Continue reading →

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