Handling a quadruple precision floating point (128-bit) number in java

Question

I need to make use of numbers coming from another system that are 128-bit (quadruple-precision) floating point numbers in java.

Considering that there is no equivale

Answer 1

Depending on the size of the data set BigDecimal instantiated from an imported String representation might be an easy and accurate option. I assume one can export string representations of those numbers from any programming language.