nits on BigInt Proposal

[Isiah Meadows]

FYI, you could create a BigFloat class using two BigInts, one for the
value, the other for the decimal point position. You could go from
there to model infinite-precision values, using a bit of math to
ensure the two fields remain correct.
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On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Bruno Jouhier <bjouhier at gmail.com> wrote:
> BigDecimal is a MUST for accounting.
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> Main reasons:
>
> JS number precision is too limited (16 digits)
> Decimal numbers are not represented "exactly" by JS numbers => comparisons
> gives surprising results (0.1 + 0.2 !== 0.3).
> Incorrect roundtrips with SQL Databases: decimals have up to 38 digits
> precision in Oracle and SQL Server, 65 (!!) in MySQL.
>
> JSON serialization is addressed by serializing to string. Like dates (no
> date literals in JS/JSON).
>
> Same for SQL. In the absence of a BigDecimal type on JS side, values are
> passed as strings.
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> Bruno
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