<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>On Nov 28, 2016, at 09:48, Philippe Hausler via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div class="">This might be a bit nicer since that is relying on NSNumber bridges. You can bridge to NSDecimalNumber directly like this: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(112, 61, 170);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Decimal</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #272ad8" class="">1.0</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">) </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #ba2da2" class="">as</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">NSDecimalNumber</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">).</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">doubleValue</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(112, 61, 170);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">(but perhaps we should consider adding initializers that follow the same pattern as Double that don’t have to bridge to solve the problem)</span></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 28, 2016, at 2:40 AM, Alex Blewitt via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You can wrap it with an NSDecimalNumber, and then cast it to a Double from there:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Double(NSDecimalNumber(decimal:Decimal(1.0)))</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Alex</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Nov 2016, at 10:13, Rick Mann via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">How do I get a Double from a Decimal?<br class=""><br class="">TIA,<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Rick Mann<br class=""><a href="mailto:rmann@latencyzero.com" class="">rmann@latencyzero.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>swift-users mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org">swift-users@swift.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users</a></span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Does NSDecimalNumber conform to the floating point literal whosywhatsit protocol? If not, wouldn't both of those examples just covert a Double to a decimal and back again? Would there be a purpose to that? Like maybe it'd get rounded differently or something?</div><div><br></div><div>Once you have an NSDecimalNumber variable, though, I don't know of any better way than that '.doubleValue' property you and Alex mentioned.</div><div><br></div><div>- Dave Sweeris</div></body></html>