Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Copyright 2009 The Kuali Foundation. * * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.math.BigDecimal; public class Main { /** * Multiplies two decimals and applies the given scale and a ROUND_HALF_UP. This method should be used only for the final result * calculation.For example if we have something like this: (axb)/c the rules should be applied to the result of the division * only and not all the computations that give us the final result. * * @param multiplier1 first multiplier * @param multiplier2 second multiplier * @param scale the scale fo the result * @return the result of the multiplication after scale and rounding are applied */ public static BigDecimal multiply(BigDecimal multiplier1, BigDecimal multiplier2, int scale) { BigDecimal result = BigDecimal.ZERO; if (multiplier1 != null && multiplier2 != null) { result = multiplier1.multiply(multiplier2); } result = result.setScale(scale, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP); return result; } }