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instance method

BigDecimal#exponent

exponent

ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c View on GitHub ↗

static VALUE
BigDecimal_exponent(VALUE self)
{
    ssize_t e = VpExponent10(GetVpValue(self, 1));
    return SSIZET2NUM(e);
}

Returns the exponent of the BigDecimal number, as an Integer.

If the number can be represented as 0.xxxxxx*10**n where xxxxxx is a string of digits with no leading zeros, then n is the exponent.

See also #eql? #finite? #dup #fix also in 3.3 · 3.1 · 3.0