Decimal compare

decimal-compare · version 1.0.0 · Numbers & math · free, no key needed

Compare two decimal strings exactly after canonicalization.

Use when you need to: decimal compare · compare decimals · cmp decimal strings.

Supported

• decimal compare
• compare decimals
• cmp decimal strings

Not supported

• ieee754
• epsilon
• locale

Behavior

• Input decimal strings: /^-?(0|[1-9][0-9]*)(\.[0-9]+)?$/.
• Reject leading zeros, plus signs, spaces, exponents, bare ".", trailing ".", empty, and NaN/Infinity tokens.
• At most 40 digits excluding sign and decimal point. At most 18 fractional digits on input.
• Canonicalize: strip trailing fractional zeros; drop the decimal point if the fraction vanishes; normalize -0 and -0.0 to "0".
• Exact decimal arithmetic with BigInt scaled integers. No IEEE-754 intermediates. Never return JSON BigInt.
• result is -1, 0, or 1 after canonical numeric compare. 1.0 equals 1.

Input

• a (string, required): min length 1; max length 44
• b (string, required): min length 1; max length 44

Output

• result (one of -1, 0, 1, required)

Limits

• max digits: 40
• max scale: 18

Example

Request input:

{
  "a": "1.0",
  "b": "1"
}

Response:

{
  "result": {
    "result": 0
  }
}

How to call it

MCP

Connect https://computefirst.net/mcp (setup), then call execute with:

{
  "id": "decimal-compare",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "input": {
    "a": "1.0",
    "b": "1"
  }
}

HTTP (no key)

curl -X POST https://computefirst.net/v1/tools/decimal-compare/versions/1.0.0/execute \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"a":"1.0","b":"1"}'

The machine-readable contract is at /v1/tools/decimal-compare/versions/1.0.0.

CLI

node cli.mjs run decimal-compare 1.0.0 --input input.json --base-url https://computefirst.net

Get the client at /clients/cli/.

Related tools

• Integer compare: Compare two canonical signed base-10 integer strings using BigInt.
• Decimal add: Exact decimal addition of canonicalizable decimal strings.
• Decimal subtract: Exact decimal subtraction a minus b of canonicalizable decimal strings.
• Array integer cumulative sum: Replace an array of canonical integer strings with equal-length prefix sums.
• Array integer median: Select lower and upper middle canonical integers; emit median only for odd length.
• Array integer mode: Return the most frequent canonical integers, listing every mode in first-seen order.