bigThousand = big.NewInt(1000)
	big1024     = big.NewInt(1024)

	// Commonly needed inf.Dec values-- treat as read only!
	decZero = inf.NewDec(0, 0)
	decOne  = inf.NewDec(1, 0)

	// Largest (in magnitude) number allowed.
	maxAllowed = infDecAmount{inf.NewDec((1<<63)-1, 0)} // == max int64

	// The maximum value we can represent milli-units for.
	// Compare with the return value of Quantity.Value() to