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I'm getting the following error from this small piece of code, and I don't understand why... I've tried everything I can think of to try and make this number (or string) acceptable to BigNumber (e.g. toFixed, toString(), toString(16)), but nothing is working, it keeps rejecting the value. And I don't understand why it rejects the value in the first place, as it is neither big nor very small, and it only has 8 decimal places. |
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Keep in mind BigNumber is for integers, so it must have 0 decimals. It looks like you are trying to parse a decimal value into an integer quality, so you probably want If you are trying to later do math with it and maintain its precision, you will need to use the fixed-point math; Does that make sense? |
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Keep in mind BigNumber is for integers, so it must have 0 decimals.
It looks like you are trying to parse a decimal value into an integer quality, so you probably want
ethers.utils.parseUnits(coin.usd_exchange_rate, 8), if it will always be 8 decimals.If you are trying to later do math with it and maintain its precision, you will need to use the fixed-point math;
const value = ethers.FixedNumber.from(coin.usd_exchange_rate), which will by default usefixed128x18for any operations on it, which should be enough for most peoples purposes.Does that make sense?