BigDecimal support for JavaScript

You can download two JavaScript classes here that allow calculations with nearly arbitrary precision (only dependent on the available amount of memory). These classes have been tested with Internet Explorer 5.5, Mozilla 1.3, and Camino 0.7.

The JavaScript classes are an exact conversion of the MathContext and BigDecimal Java classes implemented by IBM in the International Components for Unicode for Java project. The JavaScript version is available under the same license as the orginal Java classes. In short, you may use and distribute them as you like as long as the copyright notices stay intact.

The download archive contains a test page that demonstrates using BigDecimals for calculating the Euler number. This calculation is relatively slow because of the many divisions and multiplications that are necessary - additions however, which are much more common in real world projects, are very fast.

Besides the source code, there is no further documentation (yet). If you have questions or suggestions, please contact Andreas Junghans.

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