I have always found that the best way to deal with money is to use cents rather than dollars. ie. if you have $0.02 then you have 2c and arithmetic always works with integers. It dispenses with all kinds of problems and makes things a lot easier. Just format your output in the correct way as and when you need it.
That's my 2c worth. :) Cheers, Andy On 2 January 2013 03:04, Kevin Purnelle <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for providing insight :) and Happy new year :) > > > On Monday, 31 December 2012 18:58:54 UTC+1, Mark Hahn wrote: >> >> In general you can think of js numbers as integers or floats, assuming you >> need less than the 56 bits of resolution. A common misconception is that >> floating point numbers have some sort of built-in inaccuracy. It took me a >> while to quit worrying about it. >> >> I even send numbers to jquery/DOM with things like the .0000004 present. >> It wastes some characters when serializing but that isn't a big problem in >> the overall scheme of things. >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Kevin Purnelle <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Ok thank you, this was my real concern, if repeated imprecision in >>> operations could lead to inconsistency after some time. :) >>> >>> On Monday, 31 December 2012 18:35:41 UTC+1, Mark Hahn wrote: >>>> >>>> Just chain using all floats and use toFixed at the end. Floating points >>>> have all the resolution you need. It doesn't hurt for 0.000004 to hang >>>> around during the intermediate calculations. >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >> >> > -- > 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 -- Andrew Chilton e: [email protected] w: http://appsattic.com/ t: https://twitter.com/andychilton p: +64 21 891 681 -- 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
