/**
* assumes both this and other are normalised
*/
public int CompareNormalised(NormalisedDecimal other)
{
int cmp = _relativeDecimalExponent - other._relativeDecimalExponent;
if (cmp != 0)
{
return(cmp);
}
if (_wholePart > other._wholePart)
{
return(1);
}
if (_wholePart < other._wholePart)
{
return(-1);
}
return(_fractionalPart - other._fractionalPart);
}
/**
* Convert to an equivalent {@link NormalisedDecimal} representation having 15 decimal digits of precision in the
* non-fractional bits of the significand.
*/
public NormalisedDecimal NormaliseBaseTen()
{
return(NormalisedDecimal.Create(_significand, _binaryExponent));
}