How to use NSDecimalNumber?

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Do NOT use NSNumber‘s +numberWith... methods to create NSDecimalNumber objects. They are declared to return NSNumber objects and are not guaranteed to function as NSDecimalNumber instances.

This is explained in this thread by Bill Bumgarner, a developer at Apple. I would encourage you to file a bug against this behavior, referencing bug rdar://6487304.

As an alternative these are all of the appropriate methods to use to create an NSDecimalNumber:

+ (NSDecimalNumber *)decimalNumberWithMantissa:(unsigned long long)mantissa
                     exponent:(short)exponent isNegative:(BOOL)flag;
+ (NSDecimalNumber *)decimalNumberWithDecimal:(NSDecimal)dcm;
+ (NSDecimalNumber *)decimalNumberWithString:(NSString *)numberValue;
+ (NSDecimalNumber *)decimalNumberWithString:(NSString *)numberValue locale:(id)locale;

+ (NSDecimalNumber *)zero;
+ (NSDecimalNumber *)one;
+ (NSDecimalNumber *)minimumDecimalNumber;
+ (NSDecimalNumber *)maximumDecimalNumber;
+ (NSDecimalNumber *)notANumber;

If you simply want an NSDecimalNumber from a float or int constant try something like this:

NSDecimalNumber *dn = [NSDecimalNumber decimalNumberWithDecimal:
                             [[NSNumber numberWithFloat:2.75f] decimalValue];

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