BigInteger divide method in Java with examples| BigDecimal divide tutorials

This post shows how to divide BigInteger with others in Java with examples. You can also check my previous posts on the BigInteger class in Java.

• BigInteger Class tutorials
• Convert BigInteger to/from BigDecimal
• Convert BigDecimal to/from String
• BigInteger Multiplication example
• Convert BigDecimal to float
• Convert BigDecimal to double
• Top 10 BigInteger Examples
• Rounding BigDecimal to 2 decimal places
• Check BigDecimal contains Zero or not
• Convert BigInteger to/from ByteArray

In java, long or integers can be divided using the division operator /. However, BigInteger can’t be divided, and throws an compilation error

Operator ’/’ cannot be applied to ‘java.math.BigInteger’, ‘java.math.BigInteger’.

Here is an example using the BigInteger division operator

import java.math.BigInteger;

public class BigIntegerDivisionOperator {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create two BigInteger
        BigInteger operand1= BigInteger.valueOf(2);
        BigInteger operand2= BigInteger.valueOf(2);
        // Division throws an compilation error
        BigInteger result=operand1/operand2;
        System.out.println(result);
    }
}

#Java BigInteger Division method with example

The divide method to divide BigInteger values, returns the result of the division of values

BigInteger is immutable, and the result returns a new object.

In Java, It uses an array of integers to do the process internally, The performance is less compared with the Integer division.

Syntax:

    public BigInteger divide(BigInteger val)

This method called on the BigInteger object, takes the same type of parameter. Returns a new BigInteger object.

Here is an example of a BigInteger divide

import java.math.BigInteger;

public class BigIntegerMultiply {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
       // Create two operands of BigInteger values
        BigInteger divident= BigInteger.valueOf(212312);
        BigInteger divisor= BigInteger.valueOf(2123);
        // Division
        BigInteger result=divident.divide(divisor);
        System.out.println(result);
    }
}

Output:

100

#How to divide two BigDecimals values into a BigDecimal object

divide method always works with BigDecimal🔗 values.

First, Convert BigInteger into BigDecimal using the below code Next, use the divide method and the result is BigDecimal.

This method takes three parameter

• BigDecmal is the first parameter
• scale: the number of digits to the right of the decimal point
• RoundingMode is another parameter integer enum, contains HALF_UP

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.math.RoundingMode;

public class BigIntegerMultiply {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        BigDecimal operand1= BigDecimal.valueOf(212312);
        BigDecimal operand2= BigDecimal.valueOf(2123);
        BigDecimal result=operand1.divide(operand2,4, RoundingMode.HALF_UP);
        System.out.println(result);
    }
}

Output:

100.0057