which data type in java can support 10e+10000 number .?

Question

i want to check for palindrome of square of 10e+100 in java. please mention any solution of it because in java double can carry only upto 4.9e-324 to 1.8e+308 numeric values , so please suggest any possible solution or hint may also be helpful...

thanks for your sincere attention.

Answer 1

You might want to look into the BigInteger class. Here is the documentation.

BigInteger can support huge.. huge numbers!

Answer 2

For numbers that large, when you only need the standard number of significant digits, it's conventional to represent the number using its logarithm, i.e. you store 10e+100 as 100*log(10) and work with that.