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An alternative to JavaScript's eval() for solving mathematical expressions. It can be extended to use the Big Number libraries available to provide results with maximum precision. See Releases for compressed script (~4kb) download.
npm install bigeval
> var BigEval = require('bigeval')
<script src="BigEval.js"></script>
Eval
).After including BigEval.js, the first step is to get a handle to the BigEval object. Then we can use the exec()
method to solve a expression. See project page for a working example.
var Obj = new BigEval();
var result = Obj.exec("5! + 1e3 * (PI + E)"); // 5979.874482048837
var result2 = Obj.exec("sin(45 * deg)**2 + cos(pi / 4)**2"); // 1
var result3 = Obj.exec("0 & -7 ^ -7 - 0%1 + 6%2"); //-7
var result4 = Obj.exec("sin( acos( ceil( tan(pi/6) ) ) )"); // sin(0) i.e. 0
The exec
method returns the answer as string. If an error occurs, then Obj.err
is set to true and the error message is returned by exec().
The operators currently supported in order of precedence are -
Factorial (!)
Power (**)
Division (/ or \) , Multiplication (*), Modulo (%)
Addition (+), Subtraction (-)
And (&)
Xor (^)
Or (|)
BigEval supports functions like sin(), cos() ... When a function is used in an expression, BigEval first looks into its methods to see if such a function exist, then it looks into the JavaScript Math()
library and in the end it looks into window's global namespace for the function.
Please note that we use just sin()
and not Math.sin()
in expressions. Attaching a new function to BigEval is easy.
BigEval.prototype.avg = function(a, b){
return this.div( this.add(a,b) , "2");
};
Constants are nothing but properties of the BigEval object. To use a constant such as PI in an expression, we can simply write PI
. Example - sin( PI / 4 )
.
To add a new constant, we do Obj.CONSTANT.NAME = VALUE
. The VALUE should be in string format. A constant NAME should start with an alphabet and should only use [a-z0-9_]
characters. Default constants include -
PI = 3.1415...
PI_2 = PI / 2
LOG2E = log(e) / log(2)
DEG = PI / 180
E = 2.718...
INFINITY = Infinity
NaN = NaN
BigEval can be extended with any of the big number libraries for JavaScript. To extend BigEval, we only need to change its methods that are responsible for adding, subtracting and so. For an example see the extension MikeMcl-decimal.js which is based on MikeMcl's Decimal.js library. The HTML page extended.html shows how to use this extension.
To use decimaljs extension with Node, download the file and then
var BigEval = require('./MikeMcl-decimal.js');
var b = new BigEval();
console.log(b.exec('-2 + 3'));
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Mathematical expression solving library
We found that bigeval demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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