Ruby | BigDecimal class dup value

BigDecimal#dup() : dup() is a BigDecimal class method which returns the duplicate value for the BigDecimal value.

Syntax: BigDecimal.dup()

Parameter: BigDecimal values to find the duplicate value

Return: duplicate value for the BigDecimal value

Code #1 : Example for dup() method

# Ruby code for dup() method

# loading BigDecimal
require 'bigdecimal'


# declaring BigDecimal
b = -BigDecimal("10")


puts "dup example 2 : #{b.dup()}\n\n"

Output :

dup example 2 : -0.1E2

Code #2 : Example for dup() method

# Ruby code for dup() method

# loading BigDecimal
require 'bigdecimal'

# declaring BigDecimal
b = BigDecimal('10')-(22 ** 7.1) ** 10

# declaring BigDecimal
c = BigDecimal('-3')


puts "dup example 2 : #{b.dup()}\n\n"

puts "dup example 3 : #{c.dup()}\n\n"

Output :

dup example 2 : -0.20512110073058639999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999E96

dup example 3 : -0.3E1