Why does this keep adding different numbers?

For an example add a 9 to this 999999999999999 and it will be converted to 10,000,000,000,000,000, even adding very long numbers get changed, this isn’t great for a web app dealing with money…

I can’t see any docs revealing why this is happening or how to stop it, tried decimalScale={undefined}, nothig changed…

Please, help

[cchanxzy]

Hi, thanks for getting in touch.

Yes, I am aware there are some issues when a large digit number is entered. It was never my intention to handle large numbers like 999999999999999 so I’ve never really looked into handling it to be honest.

In the future I might implement a solution, but if you’re in a rush I would recommend either:

• Forking the project and implementing your own solution
• Avoid large numbers
• Use a different library (https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-number-format is a good shout)

Sorry my reply isn’t particularly helpful.

[ItsShadowl]

Hi, glad to hear from you… The issue has been affecting other parts of my dev since 2 days now(mostly my fault since i don’t like proceeding with development when there’s a pending bug to fix)

I had a fork pulled and started implementing the solution using bignumber.js library for all number-based implementations…

I’m done with it though, been testing to be sure i didn’t break anything…

• Forking the project and implementing your own solution
• Avoid large numbers
• Use a different library (https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-number-format is a good shout)

Thanks for all suggestions, i’m unable to avoid large numbers since i’m in the finance sector.

After rigorous testing, i figured the react-number-format i mentioned also faced the same issue and going deep into the code, i saw it uses parseFloat even in more lines than yours 😊

I appreciate your work on the library and it was as simple and advanced as i want, kinda have all features i wanted.

If you want, i can upload the fork to github(not yet to avoid it competing with your library), maybe it might help you solve a major problem for many people facing same issue, just that you now have bignumber.js as a dependency.

Good luck and thanks again