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`less` overloads

== Synopses

Declared in `&lt;bdldfp&lowbar;decimalimputil&period;h&gt;`

Return `true` if `lhs` is less than `rhs`&period;


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static
bool
xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/DecimalImpUtil/less-07.adoc[less](
    xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/DecimalImpUtil/ValueType128.adoc[ValueType128] lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/DecimalImpUtil/ValueType128.adoc[ValueType128] rhs);
----

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Return `true` if the specified `lhs` has a value less than the specified `rhs` and `false` otherwise&period; The value of a `Decimal64` object `lhs` is less than that of an object `rhs` if the `compareQuietLess` operation (IEEE&hyphen;754 defined, non&hyphen;total ordering comparison) considers the underlying IEEE representation of `lhs` to be less than of that of `rhs`&period; In other words, `lhs` is less than `rhs` if&colon;


[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
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static
bool
xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/DecimalImpUtil/less-00.adoc[less](
    xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/DecimalImpUtil/ValueType32.adoc[ValueType32] lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/DecimalImpUtil/ValueType32.adoc[ValueType32] rhs);
----

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Return `true` if `lhs` is less than `rhs`, and `false` otherwise&period;


[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
----
static
bool
xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/DecimalImpUtil/less-08.adoc[less](
    xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/DecimalImpUtil/ValueType64.adoc[ValueType64] lhs,
    xref:BloombergLP/bdldfp/DecimalImpUtil/ValueType64.adoc[ValueType64] rhs);
----

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