JavaScript is a mature language (holding mature issues), though tomorrow I’ve ran into something that’s out of this world:
<script type="text/javascript"> document.write( 0.1 + 0.2 ); document.write( '<br />' ); document.write( 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.3 ); </script>
Guess what?
0.30000000000000004 false
Well, not exactly the result I’ve expected.
However, the issue is absolutely not unknown neither new: many languages (including C) have similar issues due to the approximate representation of floating point numbers in memory (leaving the deep explanation to others).
For the impatient: you’ve got two options here.
First: use the .toFixed() method, for example:
( 0.1 + 0.2 ).toFixed( 2 )
It works fine when you don’t really need the floating point calculations, which is absolutely fine for money calculations for example.
The second option? Well, I should offer a nice GPL JS library which does the trick. The bad news is that I’m not aware of one, so should you find a solution, feel free to post it in the comments!
