Misunderstanding with BigIntegers - no suprises there then...

Hi

I have a function for breaking down (supposedly) a BigInteger into a list, depending on the base! It works when I send it all my small test cases, however, when I do actually try and send it a 'big integer' it falls over, what am I doing wrong? Typical call line:

cc.split(234752138651249763254, BigInteger.valueOf(23472))

I keep getting an error stating that it is out of bounds!

Many thanks, Ron

public List split(BigInteger x, BigInteger b)

{

BigInteger t;

List<BigInteger> lst =new ArrayList<BigInteger>();

while (x.compareTo(BigInteger.ZERO) > 0)

{

BigInteger[] qr = x.divideAndRemainder(b);

x = qr[0];

t = qr[1];

lst.add(t);

}

//System.out.println(l.toString());

return lst;

}

[1085 byte] By [cakea] at [2007-10-2 11:59:42]