Java BigDecimal .subtract (BigDecimal subtrahend, MathContext mc)
Syntax
BigDecimal.subtract(BigDecimal subtrahend, MathContext mc) has the following syntax.
public BigDecimal subtract(BigDecimal subtrahend, MathContext mc)
Example
In the following code shows how to use BigDecimal.subtract(BigDecimal subtrahend, MathContext mc) method.
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.math.MathContext;
//from w ww .j a v a 2s .c o m
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
MathContext mc = new MathContext(2); // 2 precision
BigDecimal bg1 = new BigDecimal("100.123");
BigDecimal bg2 = new BigDecimal("50.56");
// subtract bg1 with bg2 using mc and assign result to bg3
BigDecimal bg3 = bg1.subtract(bg2, mc);
String str = "The Result of Subtraction is " + bg3;
// print bg3 value
System.out.println(str);
}
}
The code above generates the following result.