Solidity Big Number
npm install solidity-big-numberMathematical computations over a size-limited fixed-point infrastructure, bare a fundamental tradeoff between Accuracy and Valid Input Range.
Within any computation, the only type of operation which can reduce the accuracy of the output is division.
The typical solution is to rearrange the computation such that division takes place only as the very last step.
Subsequently, intermediate results of the computation become more likely to overflow and revert the entire transaction.
This means that rearranging the computation will effectively reduce the range of input which can be handled successfully.
For example, consider a / b + c / d with a = 100, b = 51, c = 1, d = 25, and a size-limit of 8 bits (maximum value being 255).
The true value of this expression is 100 / 51 + 1 / 25 = 2.00078..., so ideally on a fixed-point infrastructure, we would want our implementation to yield 2.
The straightforward implementation a / b + c / d is very inaccurate of course.
It yields the output 100 / 51 + 1 / 25 = 1 + 0 = 1, which reflects an inaccuracy of more than 50% compared with the true value.
But rearranging it such that division takes place as the very last step using (a d + b c) / (b * d) reverts the transaction.
It yields the intermediate computation of a d = 100 25, which overflows the given size-limit.
This package consists of the following libraries:
- NaturalNum - a set of functions over natural numbers
- RationalNum - a set of functions over rational numbers
NaturalNum handles the size-limit internally, thus allowing to rearrange any computation and achieve maximum accuracy without reducing the size of valid input range.
In the example above, it yields (100 25 + 51 1) / (51 * 25) = 2, which reflects an inaccuracy of less than 0.04% compared with the true value.
RationalNum maintains the entire expression as a rational number, thus allowing to avoid the rearrangement and implement the computation in its "native form".
Using it will typically be less cost-effective, hence it is advisable to use NaturalNum whenever performance is considered critical.
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This module implements arithmetic over natural numbers of any conceivable size.
The data structure used for representing a natural number is a uint256 dynamic array.
For performance considerations, we have refrained from wrapping it within a struct.
Hopefully, future compilers will support the usage of type over this non-primitive type.
This module supports the following operations:
- Function encode(uint256 val) => uint256[]
- Function decode(uint256[] num) => uint256
- Function eq(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => bool
- Function gt(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => bool
- Function lt(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => bool
- Function gte(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => bool
- Function lte(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => bool
- Function and(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => uint256[]
- Function or(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => uint256[]
- Function xor(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => uint256[]
- Function add(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => uint256[]
- Function sub(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => uint256[]
- Function mul(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => uint256[]
- Function div(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => uint256[]
- Function mod(uint256[] x, uint256[] y) => uint256[]
- Function pow(uint256[] x, uint256 n) => uint256[]
- Function shl(uint256[] x, uint256 n) => uint256[]
- Function shr(uint256[] x, uint256 n) => uint256[]
- Function bitLength(uint256[] x) => uint256
This module assumes that every uint256[] input can ultimately be traced back to (i.e., created by) function encode.
Since the length of dynamic arrays is bounded by 264-1, the maximum representable value is (2256)(264-1)-1.
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This module implements arithmetic over rational numbers of any conceivable size.
The data structure used for representing a rational number is:
``
struct Rnum {
bool s; // the represented value's negativity
uint256[] n; // the represented value's numerator
uint256[] d; // the represented value's denominator
}
This module supports the following operations:
- Function encode(bool s, uint256 n, uint256 d) => Rnum
- Function => (bool, uint256, uint256)
- Function => bool
- Function => bool
- Function => bool
- Function => bool
- Function => bool
- Function => Rnum
- Function => Rnum
- Function => Rnum
- Function => Rnum
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- node 22.21.0
- or npm 10.9.4
- yarn install or npm install
- yarn build or npm run build
- yarn test or npm run test
- yarn verify or npm run verify`