Crate bigdecimal

A Big Decimal

BigDecimal allows storing any real number to arbitrary precision; which avoids common floating point errors (such as 0.1 + 0.2 ≠ 0.3) at the cost of complexity.

Internally, BigDecimal uses a BigInt object, paired with a 64-bit integer which determines the position of the decimal point. Therefore, the precision is not actually arbitrary, but limitied to 2⁶³ decimal places.

Common numerical operations are overloaded, so we can treat them the same way we treat other numbers.

It is not recommended to convert a floating point number to a decimal directly, as the floating point representation may be unexpected.

Structs

BigDecimal

A big decimal type.

Enums

ParseBigDecimalError