Questions tagged [safemath]
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What are the benefits of using SafeMath in version >=0.8?
When looking online, I see some answers that there is no use for SafeMath, but I still see some contracts that use it. Is it necessary, or are there any other benefits?
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SafeMath Dangers calculating percent in smart contract
I'm making a fund manager using solidity and I'd like to calculate the percentage, however I'm wonder whether the use of safeMath is actually incorrect.
using SafeMath for uint256;
uint256 percent = 5
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How to express a negative power in Solidity?
Trying to express y=2^x where x is a negative number. As Solidity does not support negative powers, is there another way to express this?
Thanks for any tips!
We are trying to create a decay formula
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How would you write this function in Solidity ? I keep getting error because of the floats
function calcPercentage(int elapsedTime){
return round(8000 + (elapsedTime * (100/36))/10000);
}
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Unable to withdraw to multiple wallets IF money is in the contract?
This withdraw function works perfectly fine if there is 0 ethereum in the contract; however, the minute there is ethereum (I have been testing sending 0.04 ethereum), the withdraw function breaks. I ...
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Solidity multiplication always resulting in 0
I'm trying to pay royalties from a contract to multiple wallets, however the multiplication is always sending me to 0.
function withdraw_to_taxman() public view returns (uint256){
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How to write a linear formula for percentage in Solidity?
So id like to write this function in solidity but im having issues because of the integers not being accepted.
s being the startin time. Lets say 1 second in unix time.
x being the ending time. Lets ...
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What is the use or importance of square roots in solidity and in blockchain in general?
I have been seeing many posts about different implementations of finding the square root of a number with regard to blockchain and there is an edit in this question:
https://math.stackexchange.com/...
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Where is the single-parameter version of function sub() defined in SafeMath?
I'm going through the Ethernaut challenges to learn Solidity, and in challenge 3 ("Coin Flip"), they show the following code which subtracts 1 from the current block number:
I assumed that ...
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Which compiler version should I use?
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity >=0.6.0 <0.9.0;
import "@chainlink/contracts/src/v0.8/interfaces/AggregatorV3Interface.sol";
import "@chainlink/contracts/src/v0....
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broken for loop
can someone let me know what i got wrong in this for loop, if you need the full code let me know.
function calculateSplitPercent() public {
for(uint256 i = 0; i >= uniqueIdCounter; i++) {
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Can someone please tell me what i have wrong here
function calculateSplitPercent() public {
for(uint256 i = 0; i >= uniqueIdCounter; i++) {
uint256 spliPercent = balanceOf[uniqueIdToAddress[i]].div(totalFunded).mul(100);
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Percentages in solidity
How would i work out "x is what percent of y" or for example 5 is what percent 10 = 50%. For some reason i just cant wrap my head around it.
A clip of my code is below, i want to work out ...
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'Error: Member "mod" not found or not visible after argument-dependent lookup in uint256' when trying to use Chainlink
I got this error while trying to compile
function fulfillRandomness(bytes32 requestId, uint256 randomness) internal override {
randomResult = randomness.mod(20).add(1);
}
I saw it in ...
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calculate percentage in solidity using SafeMath
I hope this question is not asked, but i googled too much and tried to find out the problem my self.
I'm trying to get a dynamic percentage using SafeMath
uint256 lowNumber = 316442921;
uint256 ...
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What is the purpose of "unchecked" in Solidity?
According to Solidity documentation:
Prior to Solidity 0.8.0, arithmetic operations would always wrap in
case of under- or overflow leading to widespread use of libraries that
introduce additional ...
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Multiply number with Pi in solidity
I'm finding a library to implement this formula in solidity.
Is there is a library to implement this formula.
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Does using SafeMath for uint is herited from child contract
I have this code:
contract A {
using SafeMath for uint;
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}
contract B is A {
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}
Does my contract B herits from "using SafeMath for uint;"?
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Calculate Percentage
I want to calculate user reward per day.
uint256 totalBalance = 111;
uint256 rewardPerDay = 1000;
function calculateReward(uint256 userBalance) public view returns (uint256) {
uint256 ...
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Where to find SafeMath pragma solidity ^0.6.6?
While trying to use SafeMath to compute the modulo of a uint256 like shown in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqZWariqh5s (without SafeMath) I'm having some trouble finding a pragma ...
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SafeMath Utility Error in Ethereum Document 'Unique Digital Asset' Code
I refer to the example code 'Unique Digital Asset' code in Ethereum Doc (https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/smart-contracts/anatomy/#unique-digital-asset) line 60.
uint256 id = SafeMath.sub(...
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OpenZeppelin import problem
I am trying to import a couple of OpenZeppelin contracts to my project, but each time I am given an error related to unsuccessful imports from sources. I'm gonna attach a screenshot of my code. I have ...
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Loaded Die Algorithm in Solidity?
I am trying to implement a smart contract, that takes in a discreet distribution and returns a loaded random number. The higher the number higher the chance from 1-10000.
**anyone has any experience ...
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NotFoundError: Key not found in database [hn]
I'm playing Ethernaut (https://ethernaut.openzeppelin.com/).
I'm currently on level 3 (Coin Flip).
This is the Coin Flip contract:
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity ^0.6.0;
import '@...
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Round integer down to nearest 10
Is there a good way of floor rounding a number to the nearest 10 in solidity?
I have a function that calculates a percentage of a number but I want only to return multiples of 10. e.g. if it is 12% ...
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Using SafeMath with older Solidity compiler
I've been told SafeMath doesn't matter.
Does SafeMath slow things down, cost more ETH, or does it add an extra level of stability? Will SafeMath be unsupported one day?
contract SafeMath {
function ...
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How to add three numbers using safemath?
I know this might sound obvious but in solidity you can never be too sure.
Let us say I have three numbers 5, 7 and 8. Can I add them like so:
using SafeMath for uint256;
5.add(7.add(8));
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How to make a multiplication and division without overflow and any loss of precision in Vyper
How can I calculate X * Y / Z in vyper uint256 without overflow and any loss of precision?
I want to build Vyper FullMath library functions similar to the Uniswap V3 FullMath library written in ...
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TypeError: Member "add" not found or not visible after argument-dependent lookup in uint256
i have created a token ....but it gives me error
" erc20.sol:94:25: TypeError: Member "add" not found or not visible after argument-dependent lookup in uint256. balances[account] = ...
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Why is the math code causing transactions to fail
Ok so This is my first time working on solidity contracts and I'm at a loss how to debug this code.
This code fails:
function claimReturns(address claimant) private {
uint otherTotals = ...
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I want to store decimal value in a storage variable and later use that variable at same precision in the formula later internally
I want to store uint public MINTING_VELOCITY = 0.000002;
And later use it in the formula: A x t x MINTING_VELOCITY ,where A = 2000 ,t(staking_duration_time) = 120
Issue is currently MINTING_VELOCITY ...
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Is the SafeMath library obsolete in solidity 0.8.0?
SafeMath was commonly used to revert the transaction on overflow and underflow, instead of allowing the number to wrap around. The solidity 0.8.0 release notes state:
Code Generator: All arithmetic ...
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How can I use decimal in solidity
how can i calculate:
1083.83 / 8.25 = 131.37.
As I see its not possible in simple way. I have tried a lot of math function but not works.
Is there any solution for this?
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what happens if I do using SafeMath for uint256 but then divide by uint8?
example
using SafeMath for uint256;
uint8 number8 = 10;
uint256 number256 = 1000;
function something() {
return number256.div(number8);
}
is it still using safemath even if my number8 is uint8?
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Chainlink import causing Truffle console to crash
Related issue on GitHub: https://github.com/trufflesuite/truffle/issues/3329
If I compile my contracts with truffle compile and then open the truffle console with truffle develop then this happens:
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Efficient, safe pow using EXP opcode
I recently stumbled across ds-math's rpow() being a O(lg n) safe implementation of exponentiation.
Such a function is ultimately created because the EVM EXP opcode is unsafe wrt. overflows. The ...
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Is there a tool to add SafeMath to production code?
There are a lot of tools to prepare JavaScript/CSS code for production, e.g. to minimize, to convert ES8 code to ES5. Is there a tool to automatically apply SafeMath library to a .sol file?
The ...
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Using Fractions in Leasing contract
I want to create a smart contract that allows people to lend dai stable coin to other or a smart contract at an interest.
suppose at 4 % interest I need to calculate (1+0.04/12)^n (n is the period in ...
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Safemath Library version for Solidity v0.5?
Is there a version of the SafeMath library that is compliant to SOlidity v0.5?
Thanks for your inputs in advance
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Why is my calculation broken?
I have a smart contract that holds a token balance, let's call it Token A, users may send this smart contract Token B to receive Token A, they do so by specifying the amount of Token A they would like ...
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Compilation error using SafeMath
I am trying to do subtraction operation using the SafeMath library. The following is my code:
pragma solidity ^0.5.1;
library SafeMath {
function sub(uint256 a, uint256 b) internal pure returns (...
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Can I square root in Solidity?
Is it possible to square root 50 or should I use 7.071067.
I'm very new in programming and I also understand that it's possible in all other languages, but I'm not able to see where the limitations ...
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