sum function in reduce with precision problems?

[Michael Franzkowiak]

Hi,

I just recently started to look at couchdb but I already love so many aspects 
of it.

One thing that really worries me though is something I encountered today:

CouchDB seems to think that 0.79 + 5.99 + 1.59 = 8.370000000000001

This is the only document I have in my database:
{
   "_id": "xyz",
   "_rev": "...",
   "item": "BMW 320d",
   "prices": {
       "Base Price": 1.59,
       "Extra 1": 5.99,
       "Extra 2": 0.79
   }
}

This is my map / reduce function:

function(doc) {
  var p;
    
  for (p in doc.prices) {
       emit(doc.item, doc.prices[p])
  }

}

function(keys, values){
 return sum(values);
}

Calling with group=true this results in 
{"rows":[
{"key":"BMW 320d","value":8.370000000000001}
]}
I could always just multiply my numbers with the precision I need and work with 
ints but I'm still curious to see this explained.
Michael