Primitive types have fixed ranges and precision: long overflows at ~9.2×10^18, and double loses precision for decimal fractions (0.1 + 0.2 ≠ 0.3 in floating point). BigInteger handles integers of arbitrary size. BigDecimal handles decimal numbers with exact, arbitrary precision — essential for financial calculations.
The floating-point precision problem
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