vat
Go package for dealing with EU VAT. Does VAT number validation & rates retrieval. (by dannyvankooten)
decimal
Arbitrary-precision fixed-point decimal numbers in Go (by shopspring)
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vat | decimal | |
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100 | 5,925 | |
- | 3.0% | |
0.0 | 6.3 | |
about 2 years ago | 4 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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decimal
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Trouble understanding rounding when the next digit is after round precision is a #5?
Try it in JS with console.log(4.225 * 100);, you'll see the same unexpected result. Depending on your needs, it's actually fine to just be off by some amount. If it does really matter, then use an arbitrary precision library like https://github.com/shopspring/decimal to get the results you need.
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Handling currency values: facts and best practices
Most programming languages ( JavaScript, PHP, Go, Python, Java, C# ) have built-in support or 3rd-party libraries for handling this data type, even though the internal implementations can differ:
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Any go and python number experts here?
while working with money, dont use floats, use something like https://github.com/shopspring/decimal (go std lib doesnt have its own decimals yet)
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my first golang project!
Integers, or something like this: https://github.com/shopspring/decimal
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80x improvements in caching by moving from JSON to gob
I make heavy use of caching, and was caching both in-memory and in Redis using JSON to convert the data in to a string. The struct itself isn't super complicated, one level nested, and some fields use the shopspring/decimal library.
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Unexported interfaces usage question
I actually use this to represent monetary values btw :)
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How to round(2) float64?
Check out https://github.com/shopspring/decimal for doing money related calculations.
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Library recommendation -- money calculations, more accurate handling of floats
We personally use https://github.com/shopspring/decimal and it works well.
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What are your favorite packages to use?
decimal, one of the first Go library that created to work with decimal and monetary value.
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What libraries from other languages do you wish were ported over into go?
https://github.com/shopspring/decimal also.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing vat and decimal you can also consider the following projects:
go-money - Go implementation of Fowler's Money pattern
Golang Crypto Trading Bot - A golang implementation of a console-based trading bot for cryptocurrency exchanges
banking - Banking library written in Go.
decimal - A high-performance, arbitrary-precision, floating-point decimal library.
GoIB - Pure Go interface to Interactive Brokers IB API
go-finance - :warning: Deprecrated in favor of https://github.com/piquette/finance-go
Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
techan - Technical Analysis Library for Golang
apd - Arbitrary-precision decimals for Go