Decimals

[fvdm]

Hello,

When using decimals they are floored to the nearest integer. Is it possible to use decimal numbers in Bignum?

Example:

console.log( bignum('1.618033988749895').toString() );
// result: 1

[justmoon]

Sorry, decimals aren't supported in the underlying library (openssl/bn.h) for this module, so they likely won't be added ever.

It might be possible to add this feature to node-bigint, which is based on libgmp, which does support decimals. But it would require some substantial effort.

Note that in many cases you can emulate fixed-length decimals just by calculating with integers and adding a decimal point whenever you print out the numbers.