Decimal-easy NPM

decimal-easy

Simple decimal arithmetic for the browser and node.js!

Forked from https://github.com/shinuza/decimal-js, but resolved a lots of issues:

And It's different with decimal.js.

decimal.js implements decimal operation by itself, so it's arbitrary-precision, but decimal-easy not, It respects the precision from javascript engine, eg.

// javascript
1 / 3 * 3 // => 1
// decimal.js
new DecimalJS(1).div(3).mul(3) // => '0.99999999999999999999'
// decimal-easy
new Decimal(1).div(3).mul(3) // => 1

And It's more lighter-weight and faster than decimal.js

Why?

Why don’t my numbers, like 0.1 + 0.2 add up to a nice round 0.3, and instead I get a weird result like 0.30000000000000004?

Because internally, computers use a format (binary floating-point) that cannot accurately represent a number like 0.1, 0.2 or 0.3 at all.

Source : http://floating-point-gui.de/

I wrote this because I needed to do simple computation in the browser and I couldn't find a lightweight library to do it.

How to use?

In the browser

<script src="lib/decimal.js"></script>

In node

npm install decimal

then in your program

var Decimal = require('decimal');

Examples

>>> 1.1 + 2.2
3.3000000000000003

>>> Decimal('1.1').add('2.2').toNumber()
3.3

>>> 4.01 * 2.01
8.060099999999998

>>> Decimal('4.01').mul('2.01').toNumber()
8.0601

>>> Decimal.mul('4.01', '2.01').toNumber()
8.0601

Can I help?

Of course you can, I suck at math, and this implementation is very naive. If you are a math Guru and you see something wrong or a way to simplify things you can send in a pull request.