Kotlin's version of BigDecimal

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@KamilDoCholery

but there aren’t as easy to use as built in types

What are specific difficulties arise when using BigDecimal, besides the absence of literals?

val Int.bd: BigDecimal get() = BigDecimal(this)
val number2 = 1_000_000.bd

similar topic:

D128 basic type

Yes, I’ve done that (I call the type Num). But without a basic type, expressions are cumbersome. My example from a previous post: x = (a * .95) + b / 12 becomes var a = Num(1234) var b = Num(5.678) var x = a * Num(.95) + b / Num(12) which is far better than Java, but is still more verbose than necessary. Kotlin/Swift and others have gone to extraordinary lengths to get rid of a few characters here and a few characters there. For business applications, d128 would save lots of boilerp…