Question

I haven’t found any native method to do this, so I created my own in a helper class:

public static BigDecimal percentage(BigDecimal base, BigDecimal pct){
    return base.multiply(pct).divide(new BigDecimal(100));
}

But I don’t quite like it, I wonder if the API has something similar. The Number class (ancestor of BigDecimal) would be a nice place.

Answer 1

Feel free to subclass BigDecimal and add that method. Beyond that, what do you expect? You know where to find the API and confirm that the class you would like to have that method doesn’t. Personally, I’d say the functionality is so trivial that there wouldn’t be much of a point in having it in the standard API.