On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 14:55:07 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulie...@openjdk.org>
wrote:
>> Happened to notice a semantic typo in the description of
>> MathContext.DECIMAL128, use of "decimal64" where "decimal128" was intended,
>> and added some additional information to make the related descriptions more
>> informative.
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/math/MathContext.java line 106:
>
>> 104: * rounding mode of {@link RoundingMode#HALF_EVEN HALF_EVEN}.
>> 105: * Note the exponent range of decimal128 (min exponent of -6143,
>> 106: * max exponent of 6144) is <em>not</em> used for rounding.
>
> The exponent ranges are all correct, but... why mention them in the first
> place if they are not used?
My thinking was to mention the ranges to show how different than are from the
approx. +/- MAX_INT range of BigDecimal.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18587#discussion_r1549980224
