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whichdan on Nov 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Fl...

I'm assuming that storing $129.99 as 12999 and dividing by 100 when necessary would be preferable?

jacques_chester on Nov 22, 2012 [–]

The problem is that every javascript number is floating point.

Even if you think you have integers ... sometimes you don't.

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