Yeah, that's what I mean ;) That's why I explicitly cited IEEE754 in my reply instead of saying something like «heh, you know, it's that weird javascript thing with numbers» :)
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 04:53, RobG<robg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Jul 7, 9:14 pm, Massimo Lombardo <unwiredbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] >> As I see you're dealing with cents, money and stuff, I have to >> remember you that JavaScript use IEEE 754 Floating Points as its own >> internal number type, so 0.1 + 0.2 !== 0.3: people tend to be very >> picky when dealing with money, especially if it's *their* money! :) >> >> So: be careful. And if you're relying on JavaScript logic to handle >> people's money, change programming language, JavaScript is not good at >> it. > > The language is not the issue as such, any language using IEEE-754 > numbers will have exactly the same problem - certain decimal values > can't be represented exactly. The solution is to understand the issue > and deal with it, not live in fear. > > <URL: http://www.jibbering.com/faq/#binaryNumbers > > > > -- > Rob -- Massimo Lombardo Linux user #437712
