clojure.core/bigdec

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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 4 Runnable: 2

([x])

Coerce to BigDecimal

Examples

by devn on 2010-08-03 ▶

(bigdec 3.0) 3.0M (bigdec 5) 5M (bigdec -1) -1M (bigdec -1.0) -1.0M

by cloojure on 2018-09-02 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

; It also works for strings: (bigdec "123.45") => 123.45M

by berczeck on 2020-08-23 ▶

;; Works with ratios too (bigdec 1/2) ;; 0.5M

by Arvantos on 2020-11-12 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

(+ 0.1 0.1 0.1) 0.30000000000000004 (def a (bigdec 0.1)) #'user/a (+ a a a) 0.3M

See also

• clojure.core/decimal?
• clojure.core/with-precision (0)
• clojure.core/bigint (1)
• clojure.core/double (2)
• clojure.core/float (0)

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