NSNumberFormatter iOS big double meaning

I have a problem with formatting large numbers.

I will format the string to a number first, and since I need to store the string, I get the stringValue from it:

formatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setLocale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];
[formatter setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterDecimalStyle];
[formatter setUsesSignificantDigits:NO];
[formatter setMaximumFractionDigits:6];
[formatter setMinimumFractionDigits:0];
[formatter setGroupingSeparator:@""];
value = [formatter numberFromString:textField.text];
label = [value stringValue]

      

and everything is fine, that is, if I enter 123456745678592.6, I get 123456745678592.6.

Then I have to format the string due to different languages:

numberFormatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
[numberFormatter setLocale:[NSLocale currentLocale]];
[numberFormatter setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterDecimalStyle];
[numberFormatter setGroupingSeparator:@""];
[numberFormatter setUsesSignificantDigits:NO];
[numberFormatter setMinimumFractionDigits:0];
[numberFormatter setMaximumFractionDigits:6];
tempString = myNumberString;
NSLog(@"number: %@",[NSNumber numberWithDouble:[tempString doubleValue]]);
tempString = [numberFormatter stringFromNumber:[NSNumber numberWithDouble:[tempString doubleValue]]];
NSLog(@"string translated: %@",tempString);

      

and I get this: "number: 123456745678592.6" "string translated: 123456745678593"

This rounding occurs when the significant digits are greater than 15.

Let's say I enter: +12345674567859.2 i then get the correct number i.e. "number: 12345674567859.2" "string translated: 12345674567859.2"

from: +12345674567859.23 I got: "number: 12345674567859.23" "string translated: 12345674567859.2"

but with: 1234567456785921 I get this: "number: 1234567456785921" "string translated: 1234567456785920"

Is this the internal limit of nsnumberformatter because the documentation doesn't say anything about it, or am I doing something wrong?

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Could you please check what is the actual room class? Is it NSNumber

or NSDecimalNumber

?

A is NSNumber

character-backed double

and cannot contain more than 15 significant decimal digits. On the other hand, it NSDecimalNumber

uses decimal arithmetic and can contain up to 32 significant digits.



I already found out that NSDecimalFormatter

I can't format correctly NSDecimalNumber

(see iOS: Formatting Decimal Numbers ). But perhaps it can correctly construct NSDecimalNumber

from a string.

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I think the problem is not in the limit of NSNumberFormatter, it is in the limit of the double itself.

The maximum double value in Objective-C is 15 digits, I think this is a good hint of what is going on in your program.

I think that when you do this,



[NSNumber numberWithDouble:[tempString doubleValue]]];

      

You are limiting the NSNumber because doubleValue will have a limit!

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