A JavaScript library for arbitrary-precision decimal and non-decimal arithmetic.
Note: This is version 2 of the library, for version 1.x.x see the tagged releases or switch to the 'original' branch. The advantages of version 2 are that it is considerably faster for numbers with many digits and that there are a few added methods (see Change Log below). The disadvantages are more lines of code and increased code complexity, and the loss of simplicity in no longer having the coefficient of a BigNumber stored in base 10. The 'original' version will continue to be supported.
toExponential
, toFixed
, toPrecision
and toString
methods of JavaScript's Number typetoFraction
and a correctly-rounded squareRoot
methodIf an even smaller and simpler library is required see big.js.
It's half the size but only works with decimal numbers and only has half the methods.
It also does not allow NaN
or Infinity
, or have the configuration options of this library.
See also decimal.js.
The library is the single JavaScript file bignumber.js (or minified, bignumber.min.js).
It can be loaded via a script tag in an HTML document for the browser
<script src='./relative/path/to/bignumber.js'></script>
or as a CommonJS, Node.js or AMD module using require
.
For Node, put the bignumber.js file into the same directory as the file that is requiring it and use
var BigNumber = require('./bignumber.js');
or put it in a node_modules directory within the directory and use require('bignumber.js')
.
The library is also available from the npm registry, so
$ npm install bignumber.js
will install this directory in a node_modules directory within the current directory.
To load with AMD loader libraries such as requireJS:
require(['path/to/bignumber'], function(BigNumber) {
// Use BigNumber here in local scope. No global BigNumber.
});
In all examples below, var
, semicolons and toString
calls are not shown.
If a commented-out value is in quotes it means toString
has been called on the preceding expression.
The library exports a single function: BigNumber, the constructor of BigNumber instances. It accepts a value of type Number (up to 15 significant digits only), String or BigNumber Object,
x = new BigNumber(123.4567)
y = BigNumber('123456.7e-3') // 'new' is optional
z = new BigNumber(x)
x.equals(y) && y.equals(z) && x.equals(z) // true
and a base from 2 to 64 inclusive can be specified.
x = new BigNumber(1011, 2) // "11"
y = new BigNumber('zz.9', 36) // "1295.25"
z = x.plus(y) // "1306.25"
A BigNumber is immutable in the sense that it is not changed by its methods.
0.3 - 0.1 // 0.19999999999999998
x = new BigNumber(0.3)
x.minus(0.1) // "0.2"
x // "0.3"
The methods that return a BigNumber can be chained.
x.dividedBy(y).plus(z).times(9).floor()
x.times('1.23456780123456789e+9').plus(9876.5432321).dividedBy('4444562598.111772').ceil()
Many method names have a shorter alias.
x.squareRoot().dividedBy(y).toPower(3).equals(x.sqrt().div(y).pow(3)) // true
x.cmp(y.mod(z).neg()) == 1 && x.comparedTo(y.modulo(z).negated()) == 1 // true
Like JavaScript's Number type, there are toExponential
, toFixed
and toPrecision
methods
x = new BigNumber(255.5)
x.toExponential(5) // "2.55500e+2"
x.toFixed(5) // "255.50000"
x.toPrecision(5) // "255.50"
x.toNumber() // 255.5
and a base can be specified for toString
.
x.toString(16) // "ff.8"
There is also a toFormat
method which may be useful for internationalisation
y = new BigNumber('1234567.898765')
y.toFormat(2) // "1,234,567.90"
The maximum number of decimal places of the result of an operation involving division (i.e. a division, square root, base conversion or negative power operation) is set using the config
method of the BigNumber
constructor.
The other arithmetic operations always give the exact result.
BigNumber.config({ DECIMAL_PLACES: 10, ROUNDING_MODE: 4 })
// Alternatively, BigNumber.config( 10, 4 );
x = new BigNumber(2);
y = new BigNumber(3);
z = x.div(y) // "0.6666666667"
z.sqrt() // "0.8164965809"
z.pow(-3) // "3.3749999995"
z.toString(2) // "0.1010101011"
z.times(z) // "0.44444444448888888889"
z.times(z).round(10) // "0.4444444445"
There is a toFraction
method with an optional maximum denominator argument
y = new BigNumber(355)
pi = y.dividedBy(113) // "3.1415929204"
pi.toFraction() // [ "7853982301", "2500000000" ]
pi.toFraction(1000) // [ "355", "113" ]
and isNaN
and isFinite
methods, as NaN
and Infinity
are valid BigNumber
values.
x = new BigNumber(NaN) // "NaN"
y = new BigNumber(Infinity) // "Infinity"
x.isNaN() && !y.isNaN() && !x.isFinite() && !y.isFinite() // true
The value of a BigNumber is stored in a decimal floating point format in terms of a coefficient, exponent and sign.
x = new BigNumber(-123.456);
x.c // [ 123, 45600000000000 ] coefficient (i.e. significand)
x.e // 2 exponent
x.s // -1 sign
For futher information see the API reference from the doc folder.
The test directory contains the test scripts for each method.
The tests can be run with Node or a browser. For Node use
$ npm test
or
$ node test/every-test
To test a single method
$ node test/toFraction
For the browser, see every-test.html and single-test.html in the test/browser directory.
bignumber-vs-number.html enables some of the methods of bignumber.js to be compared with those of JavaScript's Number type.
The perf directory contains two applications and a lib directory containing the BigDecimal libraries used by both.
bignumber-vs-bigdecimal.html tests the performance of bignumber.js against the JavaScript translations of two versions of BigDecimal, its use should be more or less self-explanatory. (The GWT version doesn't work in IE 6.)
The BigDecimal in Node's npm registry is the GWT version. Despite its seeming popularity I have found it to have some serious bugs, see the Node script perf/lib/bigdecimal_GWT/bugs.js for examples of flaws in its remainder, divide and compareTo methods.
bigtime.js is a Node command-line application which tests the performance of bignumber.js against the GWT version of BigDecimal from the npm registry.
For example, to compare the time taken by the bignumber.js plus
method and the BigDecimal add
method:
$ node bigtime plus 10000 40
This will time 10000 calls to each, using operands of up to 40 random digits and will check that the results match.
For help:
$ node bigtime -h
See the README in the directory for more information.
I.e. minify.
For Node, if uglify-js is installed globally ( npm install uglify-js -g
) then
npm run build
will create bignumber.min.js.
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dividedToIntegerBy
, isInteger
and toFormat
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, isZ
, toE
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