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- No dependencies
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- Comprehensive documentation and test set
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If a smaller, simpler library is required see [big.js](https://github.com/MikeMcl/big.js/).
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If an even smaller and simpler library is required see [big.js](https://github.com/MikeMcl/big.js/).
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It's half the size with half the methods and only works with decimal numbers; it also does not allow `NaN` or `Infinity`, or have the configuration options of this library.
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## Load
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var BigNumber = require('bignumber');
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The library is also available from the [npm](https://npmjs.org/) registry, so
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$ npm install bignumber.js
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will install this entire directory in a *node_modules* directory within the current directory.
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It can then be loaded with
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var BigNumber = require('bignumber.js');
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To load with AMD loader libraries such as [requireJS](http://requirejs.org/):
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require(['bignumber'], function(BigNumber) {
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* ICU4J: com.ibm.icu.math.BigDecimal
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<https://github.com/dtrebbien/BigDecimal.js>
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The BigDecimal in Node's npm registry is the GWT version; unfortunately, it has serious bugs, see the Node script *perf/lib/bigdecimal_GWT/bugs.js for examples of flaws in its *remainder*, *divide* and *compareTo* methods.
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The BigDecimal in Node's npm registry is the GWT version. Despite its seeming popularity I have found it to have some serious bugs, see the Node script *perf/lib/bigdecimal_GWT/bugs.js* for examples of flaws in its *remainder*, *divide* and *compareTo* methods.
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*bigtime.js* is a Node command-line application which tests the performance of bignumber.js against the GWT version of BigDecimal from the npm registry.
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####1.0.0
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* 8/11/2012 Initial release
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* 9/11/12 Added package.json for npm
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