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An error handling for division by zero was added by throwing IllegalA… #261

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…rgumentException in the methods of Division.java.

In this change I added if statements in each of the methods of Division to throw an IllegalArgumentException if the divisor (b) equaled 0. This allows the user to know when an error occurred with the inputted values.

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…rgumentException in the methods of Division.java.
@@ -3,35 +3,49 @@
public class Division {

public static final long division(int a, int b) {
if (b == 0){
throw now IllegalArgumentException ("Denominator is 0.");
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Alerting user the denominator is zero.

return result;
}

public static final long divisionUsingLoop(int a, int b) {
int absA = Math.abs(a);
int absB = Math.abs(b);

if (b == 0){
throw now IllegalArgumentException ("Denominator is 0.");
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Checks if denominator is 0 before the rest of the division process is complete.

return (a > 0 && b > 0 || a < 0 && b < 0) ? result : -result;
}

public static final long divisionUsingRecursion(int a, int b) {
int absA = Math.abs(a);
int absB = Math.abs(b);

if (b == 0){
throw now IllegalArgumentException ("Denominator is 0.");
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Checks if denominator is 0 before the rest of the division process is complete.

@@ -41,6 +55,10 @@ public static final long divisionUsingMultiplication(int a, int b) {
int absA = Math.abs(a);
int absB = Math.abs(b);

if(b == 0){
throw now IllegalArgumentException ("Denominator is 0.");
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Checks if denominator is 0 before the rest of the division process is complete.

@@ -59,6 +77,10 @@ public static final long divisionUsingShift(int a, int b) {
int absB = Math.abs(b);
int tempA, tempB, counter;

if(b == 0){
throw now IllegalArgumentException ("Denominator is 0.");
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Checks if denominator is 0 before the rest of the division process is complete.

@@ -78,6 +100,11 @@ public static final long divisionUsingShift(int a, int b) {
public static final long divisionUsingLogs(int a, int b) {
long absA = Math.abs(a);
long absB = Math.abs(b);

if(b == 0){
throw now IllegalArgumentException ("Denominator is 0.");
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Checks if denominator is 0 before the rest of the division process is complete.

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