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MikeMcl
big.js
JavaScript2018–2021
MikeMcl / big.js

big.js

A small, fast JavaScript library for arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

A small, fast JavaScript library for arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-04-16 21:17:10 UTC to 2021-07-03 08:00:38 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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For client-side and server-side JS, we use big.js [1]. - We use strict mode [2] so we are forced to only input strings and never numbers. - We set rounding mode [3] to round-down. - Finally the default 20 decimal places [4] seems reliable enough for most of our use-cases. - It's also immutable and we can easily truncate decimal places with toFixed(dp) [5] [1] https://github.com/MikeMcl/big.js/ [2] http://mikemcl.github.io/big.js/#strict [3] http://mikemcl.github.io/big.js/#rm [4] http://mikemcl.github.io/big.js/#dp [5] http://mikemcl.github.io/big.js/#toF
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