In Solidity smart contract, you might have to deal with huge numbers, especially when doing financial transfers. Don’t forget that we need to specify Ether transfers in Wei, a fundamental unit equals to 1 * 10 ^ -18
Ether, so very quickly even small financial values can lead to big numbers.
Dealing with big numbers can create all sort of problems, like underflow or overflow. That is why Truffle uses a special library to deal with integers (i.e the bn.js (Big Number) library). However, this can be confusing. In this video, I show you how to use this library in Solidity tests.
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