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huhtenberg on Aug 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built i...

Math is not terribly precise I'm afraid :)

  > 1111111111111111111111111111111*9
  > 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

joshspankit on Aug 17, 2022 [–]

That doesn’t seem like a floating point inaccuracy. What’s going on there?

tonyonodi on Aug 17, 2022 | [–]

NumPad uses Decimal.js to represent numbers

https://mikemcl.github.io/decimal.js/

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