BigInteger.this

Translates the sign-magnitude representation of a BigInteger into a BigInteger. The sign is represented as an integer signum value: -1 for negative, 0 for zero, or 1 for positive. The magnitude is a byte array in <i>big-endian</i> byte-order: the most significant byte is the zeroth element. A zero-length magnitude array is permissible, and will result in a BigInteger value of 0, whether signum is -1, 0 or 1. The {@code magnitude} array is assumed to be unchanged for the duration of the constructor call.

@param signum signum of the number (-1 for negative, 0 for zero, 1 for positive). @param magnitude big-endian binary representation of the magnitude of the number. @throws NumberFormatException {@code signum} is not one of the three legal values (-1, 0, and 1), or {@code signum} is 0 and {@code magnitude} contains one or more non-zero bytes.

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