How to get biggest BigDecimal value

Question

How can I get the largest possible value of a BigDecimal variable can hold? (Preferably programmatically, but hardcoding would be ok too)

EDIT
OK, just realized there is no such thing since BigDecimal is arbitrary precision. So I ended up with this, which is sufficiently big for my purpose:
BigDecimal my = BigDecimal.valueOf(Double.MAX_VALUE)

Answer 1

Its an arbitrary precision class, it will get as large as you'd like until your computer runs out of memory.

Answer 2

Looking at the source BigDecimal stores it as a BigInteger with a radix,

private BigInteger intVal; private int scale; 

and from BigInteger

/** All integers are stored in 2's-complement form. 63:    * If words == null, the ival is the value of this BigInteger. 64:    * Otherwise, the first ival elements of words make the value 65:    * of this BigInteger, stored in little-endian order, 2's-complement form. */ 66:   private transient int ival; 67:   private transient int[] words; 

So the Largest BigDecimal would be,

ival = Integer.MAX_VALUE; words = new int[Integer.MAX_VALUE];  scale = 0; 

You can figure out how to set that. :P

[Edit] So just to calculate that, In binary that's,

(2^35)-2 1's (I think?)

in 2's complement

01111111111111111...until your RAM fills up.