Scott Gray wrote: > On 26/03/2010, at 5:13 PM, Adam Heath wrote: > >> The above method makes use of a BigDecimal. This is wrong. It should >> be an int. Originally, before the BigDecimal conversion, it was a >> Double. This method should have never been converted. > > It looked like a good candidate at the time and looking at it now, it still > looks like a good candidate for BigDecimal. Why should it never have been > converted?
Days is a whole number. 2 billion days is over 5.8 million years. Why would it need to be a Double previously, and a BigDecimal now?
