You can also have a look at the ActionScript3 implementation of Long, BigInteger and BigDecimal types in GraniteDS: http://www.granitedataservices.com/public/docs/3.0.1/docs/reference/flex/graniteds-refguide-flex.html#graniteds.bignumbers
2014/1/20 Maurice Amsellem <[email protected]> > > Ok, that's the right approach (limiting character count) > ______________________________________ > De : Virat Patil [[email protected]] > Envoyé : lundi 20 janvier 2014 05:26 > À : [email protected] > Objet : RE: Number Formatter Query > > Thanks for the reply > This was kind of regression testing performed at our end by testers. > We have currently put limit over the number of characters entered. > > Regards > Virat > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Harui [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 12:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Number Formatter Query > > Regarding money, you probably know better than I since you work directly > with the banks, but I was recalling going to Bali many years ago where > their 100,000 note was worth about USD2. I wonder if their banks would hit > the 10^15 maximum faster. > > I agree it isn't common, but if Flex is to truly allow you to code > "anything", we will need to have libraries that handle big numbers and have > "infinite precision" at least to the degree that Java does. > > On 1/17/14 10:15 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >>Could be money too. > > > >AFAIK, Double precision float is 52bit, that is around 15 decimal > >digits, which is more than enough for even largest financial figures, > >as long as you don't do too many computations in Flex (because of > >rounding errors accumulation). > >My company's customers are some of the largest banks , and the figures > >are never that huge, even with cents precision... > > > >Then there is the "storage" case. I agree that PetaBytes (10^15) would > >push to the maximums. Hopefully, it's not that common. > > > >Maurice > > > >-----Message d'origine----- > >De : Alex Harui [mailto:[email protected]] Envoyé : vendredi 17 janvier > >2014 18:32 À : [email protected] Objet : Re: Number Formatter Query > > > >Could be money too. I've been told that financial apps need this. > > > >Or storage. I think petabytes push the maximums. > > > >At some point in time, Flex will probably need a good library for this. > > > >On 1/17/14 8:51 AM, "Maurice Amsellem" <[email protected]> > >wrote: > > > >>What could be the real-life use case for such huge figures ? is it a > >>physics or math application? > >> > >>Maurice > >> > >>-----Message d'origine----- > >>De : Virat Patil [mailto:[email protected]] Envoyé : jeudi 16 > >>janvier 2014 12:26 À : [email protected] Objet : RE: Number > >>Formatter Query > >> > >>Sorry . kindly ignore previous test code. > >> > >>Test Code > >>var value:String="14999999999999999188.00"; > >>var formatter:NumberFormatter=new NumberFormatter(); value > >>=formatter.format(value); trace(value); > >> > >>After trace the value i get is this "15,000,000,000,000,000,000" > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Virat Patil > >>Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 4:39 PM > >>To: [email protected] > >>Subject: Number Formatter Query > >> > >>Hello > >> > >>I am trying to format value using number formatter. > >> > >>This is my test Code > >>var value:int="14999999999999999188.00"; > >>var formatter:NumberFormatter=new NumberFormatter(); value > >>=formatter.format(value); trace(value); > >> > >>After trace the value i get is this "15,000,000,000,000,000,000" > >> > >>It returns me above value. 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