Just curious, what is the input type of your form's input field? If it's "text", then the value doesn't start life as a number anyway—it's just a string.
Also, what sort of calculations are you expecting to do? Rick On Friday, December 28, 2012, José F. Romaniello wrote: > this a weakness of javascript, there is no decimal type. but as Kevin > pointed out there are several libraries. > > One of the most complete I have seen so far is BigNumber (in npm is > bignumber.js): > > https://github.com/MikeMcl/bignumber.js > > I have never used though > > > 2012/12/28 Kevin Purnelle <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', '[email protected]');>> > >> Hello, >> >> I am building my first app with nodeJS and I am very excited about >> everything I have been learning with nodejs until now. >> My concerns are about numbers, which can't be represented precisely with >> the current specs for floating point numbers in js (not only js, I know) >> In that application I have to handle money, so calculations and storage >> of these values must be error free. >> >> The app is built with AngularJS, nodeJS (with express) and Mongodb >> >> Could anybody indicates how to handle numbers: from the time when the >> user fills the form to the time when the value is stored into the database >> and then, presented again to the user? >> >> So far, I've read that people advise to store money values as integers >> (so, stored in cents) but I would like to know if somebody has already >> faced that problem and how it was solved. >> >> Thank you :) >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> 'nodejs%[email protected]');> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'nodejs%[email protected]');> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
