alt Hacker News> The only real correct solution here is to send mantissa and exponent as two separate integers.
That’s essentially the same thing as a String-serialized big decimal, just less readable, no?
> The only real correct solution here is to send mantissa and exponent as two separate integers.
That’s essentially the same thing as a String-serialized big decimal, just less readable, no?
That’s quite a bit slower to process. At least if you’re converting to integers to do the calculations and the calculations would be quite a bit slower if you kept the big decimal type