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• Fun With Floating Point Arithmetic, Part Three

  I've been getting lots of mail, questions and pointers to interesting articles on some of the trials and tribulations of using floating point arithmetic correctly. Please do keep it coming! Though I am certainly no expert in this area, I'm happy to take Read More... Posted Monday, January 17, 2005 1:54 PM by Eric Lippert | 2 Comments Filed under: JScript, VBScript, Scripting, Floating Point Arithmetic

• Why does JScript have rounding errors?

  Try this in JScript: window.alert(9.2 * 100.0); You might expect to get 920, but in fact you get 919.9999999999999. What the heck is going on here? Read More... Posted Monday, September 15, 2003 1:41 PM by Eric Lippert | 7 Comments Filed under: JScript, VBScript, Scripting, Floating Point Arithmetic