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ruby/bigdecimal

Arbitrary-precision decimal floating-point number library for Ruby

BigDecimal

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BigDecimal provides an arbitrary-precision decimal floating-point number class.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'bigdecimal'

And then execute:

bundle

Or install it yourself as:

gem install bigdecimal

For RubyInstaller users

If your Ruby comes from RubyInstaller, make sure Devkit is available on your environment before installing bigdecimal.

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Usage

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Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies.
Then, run rake test to run the tests.
You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that
will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.
To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb,
and then run bundle exec rake release,
which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags,
and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ruby/bigdecimal.

License

BigDecimal is released under the Ruby and 2-clause BSD licenses.
See LICENSE.txt for details.

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Created December 25, 2015
Updated March 16, 2026
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