--- title: "Enormous decimal values: API" package: "@phaser-ae/large-number" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-4 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "Forty-digit decimal arithmetic for idle-game currencies, prices and scores that outgrow ordinary numbers, with explicit rounding and readable formatting." url: https://phaser.io/packs/large-number/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Enormous decimal values: API `@phaser-ae/large-number` — Forty-digit decimal numbers for idle-game currencies, prices and scores that outgrow JavaScript numbers, with explicit rounding and readable formatting. ## The pack ### `largeNumbers` ```ts function largeNumbers(): Pack<{ largeNumbers: typeof rules }> ``` Install renderer-independent enormous decimal arithmetic and formatting. ## Helpers ### `formatLarge` ```ts function formatLarge(input: LargeInput, options: LargeFormatOptions = {}): string ``` Human-readable rounding with suffix rollover; values beyond named suffixes use engineering notation. ### `largeNumber` ```ts function largeNumber(value: LargeInput = 0): LargeNumber ``` Convenient public constructor. ### `largeNumberScales` ```ts const largeNumberScales: ReadonlyArray> ``` Recognized short-scale names; gaps beyond vigintillion fall back to scientific notation. ## Classes ### `LargeNumber` ```ts class LargeNumber ``` Immutable, JSON-safe forty-significant-digit decimals with compressed enormous exponents. - `readonly coefficient: string` — Signed integer coefficient stored as text so snapshots need no BigInt JSON support. - `readonly exponent: number` — Value is coefficient times ten raised to this exponent. - `constructor(value: LargeInput = 0, rounding: LargeRounding = 'half-even')` - `static from(value: LargeInput): LargeNumber` — Parse without converting decimal text through a JavaScript number. - `get sign(): -1 | 0 | 1` — Sign, including a canonical unsigned zero. - `compare(input: LargeInput): -1 | 0 | 1` — Exact comparison of the retained decimal values. - `add(input: LargeInput, rounding: LargeRounding = 'half-even'): LargeNumber` — Add with bounded exponent alignment and an explicit rounding policy. - `subtract(input: LargeInput, rounding: LargeRounding = 'half-even'): LargeNumber` — Subtract; floor rounding is useful for conservative nonnegative currency spending. - `multiply(input: LargeInput, rounding: LargeRounding = 'half-even'): LargeNumber` — Multiply without ordinary-number overflow. - `divide(input: LargeInput, rounding: LargeRounding = 'half-even'): LargeNumber` — Divide with guard digits and sticky remainder; zero denominators fail explicitly. - `pow(exponent: number, rounding: LargeRounding = 'half-even'): LargeNumber` — Integer exponentiation by squaring, bounded to one million in either direction. - `sqrt(rounding: LargeRounding = 'half-even'): LargeNumber` — Nonnegative square root with decimal guard digits, without converting the magnitude to Number. - `negate(): LargeNumber` — Return the opposite sign. - `abs(): LargeNumber` — Return the nonnegative magnitude. - `round(places = 0, rounding: LargeRounding = 'half-even'): LargeNumber` — Round to decimal places; negative places round to tens, billions and beyond. - `toNumber(): number` — Approximate ordinary number conversion for bounded ratios/UI only; throws on overflow/underflow. - `toString(): string` — Canonical scientific decimal text, preserving every retained digit. - `toJSON(): string` — JSON serialization stores decimal text, never an overflowing Number or a raw BigInt. - `format(options: LargeFormatOptions = {}): string` — Format compact, named, scientific, engineering or bounded plain output. ## Constants ### `LARGE_NUMBER_MAX_EXPONENT` ```ts const LARGE_NUMBER_MAX_EXPONENT: 1000000000 ``` Maximum absolute base-ten order of magnitude; arithmetic fails explicitly outside it. ### `LARGE_NUMBER_PRECISION` ```ts const LARGE_NUMBER_PRECISION: 40 ``` Decimal significant digits retained by every arithmetic operation. ## Types ### `LargeFormatOptions` ```ts interface LargeFormatOptions ``` Readable output with bounded size; formatting never changes the numeric value. - `notation?: 'compact' | 'named' | 'scientific' | 'engineering' | 'plain'` — Default compact: K/M/B/T and named larger suffixes, then engineering notation. - `significantDigits?: number` — One to forty significant digits; default four. ### `LargeInput` ```ts type LargeInput = LargeNumber | string | number | bigint | { coefficient: string; exponent: number } ``` Exact decimal text, a safe ordinary numeric input, or a canonical decimal pair. ### `LargeRounding` ```ts type LargeRounding = 'half-even' | 'floor' | 'ceil' | 'trunc' ``` Round ties to even, toward negative/positive infinity, or toward zero. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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