BigInteger divide() Method in Java with Examples
Last Updated :
07 Jun, 2019
The
java.math.BigInteger.divide(BigInteger val) is used to calculate the division of two BigIntegers. BigInteger class internally uses array of integers for processing, the operation on object of BigIntegers are not as fast as on primitives. This method performs an operation upon the current BigInteger by which this method is called and BigInteger passed as the parameter.
Syntax:
public BigInteger divide(BigInteger val)
Parameters: This method accepts a parameter
val which is the value that divides this BigInteger.
Return value: This method returns a BigInteger which holds division (this / val) in Integer (non - floating point value) i.e. it rounds off the result to its floor value.
Exception: The parameter val must not be 0 otherwise
Arithmetic Exception is thrown.
Below programs is used to illustrate the divide() method of BigInteger.
Example 1:
Java
// Java program to demonstrate
// divide() method of BigInteger
import java.math.BigInteger;
public class GFG {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// BigInteger object to store result
BigInteger div;
// Two objects of String created
// Holds the values to calculate the division
String input1 = "400000000000000000"
+ "000000000000000000";
String input2 = "8000000";
// Convert the string input to BigInteger
BigInteger a
= new BigInteger(input1);
BigInteger b
= new BigInteger(input2);
// Using divide() method
div = a.divide(b);
// Display the result in BigInteger
System.out.println("The division of\n"
+ a + " \nby\n" + b + " "
+ "\nis\n" + div);
}
}
Output:
The division of
400000000000000000000000000000000000
by
8000000
is
50000000000000000000000000000
Example 2: To demonstrate how it rounds off the result
java
// Java program to demonstrate
// divide() method of BigInteger
import java.math.BigInteger;
public class GFG {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// BigInteger object to store result
BigInteger div;
// Two objects of String created
// Holds the values to calculate the division
String input1 = "456216545";
String input2 = "21255132";
// Convert the string input to BigInteger
BigInteger a
= new BigInteger(input1);
BigInteger b
= new BigInteger(input2);
// Using divide() method
div = a.divide(b);
// Display the result in BigInteger
System.out.println("The division of\n"
+ a + " \nby\n" + b + " "
+ "\nis " + div);
double d = Double.parseDouble(input1)
/ Double.parseDouble(input2);
// Display result in double type
// To match both the results
System.out.print("Using double result is " + d);
}
}
Output:
The division of
456216545
by
21255132
is 21
Using double result is 21.46383024109189
Example 3: To demonstrate Exception thrown when divided by 0
Java
// Java program to demonstrate
// divide() method of BigInteger
import java.math.BigInteger;
public class GFG {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// BigInteger object to store result
BigInteger div;
// Two objects of String created
// Holds the values to calculate the division
String input1 = "456216545"
+ "452133155";
String input2 = "0";
// Convert the string input to BigInteger
BigInteger a
= new BigInteger(input1);
BigInteger b
= new BigInteger(input2);
// Using divide() method
try {
div = a.divide(b);
// Display the result in BigInteger
System.out.println("The division of\n"
+ a + " \nby\n" + b + " "
+ "\nis\n" + div + "\n");
}
catch (ArithmeticException e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}
}
Output:
java.lang.ArithmeticException: BigInteger divide by zero
Reference: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/12/docs/api/java.base/java/math/BigInteger.html#divide(java.math.BigInteger)