After a series of calculations in my code, I have a BigDecimal with value 0.01954 I then need to multiply this BigDecimal by 100 and I wish the calculated value to be 1.95 I do not wish to perfor...

Why does the following code raise the exception shown below? BigDecimal a = new BigDecimal("1.6"); BigDecimal b = new BigDecimal("9.2"); a.divide(b) // results in the following exception. Except...

Why doesn't this code throw an ArithmeticException? Take a look: public class NewClass { public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO code application logic here double tab[] = {1.2, 3.4, 0...

I went across some sort of limitation in ASP.NET. I reduced the problem into a sample project in ASP.NET MVC Project (created with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4) and the problem still occurs: In a...

Why some numbers are defined as not a number(NaN) in floating point arithmetic? (Although they can be represented by IEEE format and indeed are real numbers)

I've been getting a Floating point exception (core dumped) error in my C++ program, and gdb shows that the problem is on a line that performs modulo division: Program received signal SIGFPE, Arith...

I am using SQL Server 2008 R2 and I have an INT column where the data inserted never surpasses the max INT, but I have a query which uses the SUM function which when executed surpasses the max INT ...

I am trying to implement the RSA-Algorithm in an Android Application. I am using the java.math.BigInteger.modPow() function for the en-/decryption which works fine for my Computer (Windows and Xubu...

The following statement throws java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero as obvious. System.out.println(0/0); because the literal 0 is considered to be an int literal and divide by zero is not allo...