Question

I have a double in Javascript whose value is, for example, 1.0883076389305e-311.
I want to express it in the following form, using as example the ‘bc’ utility to calculate the expanded/higher precision/scale form:

$ bc
scale=400
1.0883076389305000*10^-311
.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000\
00000000000000000000000000000000000000010883076389305000000000000000\
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

I need a Javascript bigint library or code to produce the same output as a string with the expanded/higher precision form of the number.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is horrible, but works with every test case I can think of:

Number.prototype.toFullFixed = function() {
    var s = Math.abs(this).toExponential();
    var a = s.split('e');
    var f = a[0].replace('.', '');
    var d = f.length;
    var e = parseInt(a[1], 10);
    var n = Math.abs(e);

    if (e >= 0) {
        n = n - d + 1;
    }

    var z = '';
    for (var i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
        z += '0';
    }

    if (e <= 0) {
        f = z + f;
        f = f.substring(0, 1) + '.' + f.substring(1);
    } else {
        f = f + z;
        if (n < 0) {
            f = f.substring(0, e + 1) + '.' + f.substring(e + 1);
        }
    }

    if (this < 0) {
        f = '-' + f;
    }

    return f;
};

If you find a number that doesn’t parse back correctly, i.e. n !== parseFloat(n.toFullFixed()), please let me know what it is!