How to Get Absolute of BigDecimal Value in Java

In this Java core tutorial we learn how to calculate absolute value of a java.math.BigDecimal object in Java programming language.

How to get absolute value of BigDecimal in Java

In Java, with a given BigDecimal object we can use the BigDecimal.abs() method to return absolute value of it as the following Java program.

AbsoluteBigDecimalExample1.java

import java.math.BigDecimal;

public class AbsoluteBigDecimalExample1 {
    public static void main(String... args) {
        BigDecimal bigDecimal1 = new BigDecimal("-999");
        BigDecimal bigDecimal2 = new BigDecimal("888");

        bigDecimal1 = bigDecimal1.abs();
        bigDecimal2 = bigDecimal2.abs();

        System.out.println("bigDecimal1: " + bigDecimal1);
        System.out.println("bigDecimal2: " + bigDecimal2);
    }
}