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Re:“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” by coldtea on Friday March 27, 2015 @12:33AM (#9274776)
Aren't decimals better suited for financial applications? That's what I've used in the past in Java land (BigDecimal).

Or are bignums and decimals the same thing? (not sure).

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Re:“We have decided not to integrate the Dart VM into Chrome” by dragonwriter on Friday March 27, 2015 @12:40AM (#9274791)
Bignums are closely related to arbitrary precision decimals (aka BigDecimals; "decimal" without more is somewhat ambiguous since sometimes those are fixed size or decimal floating point.)

Most financial applications deal with currencies each of which had a smallest indivisible unit in the application, which makes bignums most appropriate. But bigdecimals (or even arbitrary precision rationals) may be preferred in certain financial applications.

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