RE: [flexcoders] Handling VERY large numbers in Flex

[Gordon Smith]

If someone wants to tackle this, I'm pretty sure we'd distribute it on Labs if you wanted to make it available to the AS3 community.   - Gordon   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Spike Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:56 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Handling VERY large numbers in Flex   It might be possible to port the Java BigInteger class to AS3. The Java source code is available, so it ought to be possible to see fairly quickly whether it could work or not. Spike On 2/21/06, Niklas Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Crap! I thought as much after reading something about ColdFusion and large integers and having to use the Java BigInt class. Oh well.  I wonder whether 15 significant decimal digits will be enough! ;) haha! Cheers Niklas   On 2/21/06, Gordon Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have a problem... a Number can't store more than 15 or 16 significant decimal digits. If you need more, you're going to have to write or acquire the equivalent of a BigInteger class, which would probably use arbitrarily long Strings to store arbitrarily large integers.   - Gordon   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Niklas Richardson Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:09 AM To: Flex Coders Subject: [flexcoders] Handling VERY large numbers in Flex   Hi all, We're building an app that requires taking as input very large integers (e.g. 22222222222222222222, that's 20 '2's). However, Flash is converting that to exponential notation (2.22222222222222e+19). However, we don't want it to go into exponential notation. Has anyone else had to deal with very large integers in Flash?  If so, how have you dealt with it from a UI prospective and also from a data validation prospective. Do you treat them as strings, and then convert them to Numbers before validation, etc...? Any suggestions would be grately received. Cheers Niklas -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice     YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS    Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service .   -- Niklas Richardson Prismix Ltd UK based Flex and ColdFusion Specialists -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice     YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS    Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service .   -- -------------------------------------------- Stephen Milligan Do you do the Badger? http://www.yellowbadger.com Do you cfeclipse? http://www.cfeclipse.org -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.