Mantissa retrieval?

[jordanlewis]

Mantissa retrieval?

[ericlagergren]

Commenting here to remind myself to read this when I get home today.

[ericlagergren]

Immediately, you could use Raw. If the uint64 is not 1<<64-1, then it's "valid." Otherwise, the big.Int is. Or even Decompose could work.

However, like I mentioned before I am open to a more specific API.

[jordanlewis]

Thanks. After spending time playing with the code, I now understand something I didn't before, which is that the compact and inflated representations are both "just" the mantissa, without any special encoding. I think the Raw access method is perfectly fine for our use case, so I'll just close this.