Why does the BigFraction class in the Apache-Commons-Math library return incorrect division results?
- by Timothy Lee Russell
In the spirit of using existing, tested and stable libraries of code, I started using the Apache-Commons-Math library and its BigFraction class to perform some rational calculations for an Android app I'm writing called RationalCalc.
It works great for every task that I have thrown at it, except for one nagging problem. When dividing certain…