Yes, I'm dealing with money but also with micro decrements (cost per impression on ads). So my decrements are going to be like 0.000123. I think what I'm going to do is to sum them before push them into couchdb so I do not need to deal with decimals.
2013/11/15 Mike Marino <mmar...@gmail.com> > > To answer the original question, _sum can only sum numbers, it does > > not understand numbers inside strings. > > > > The way I understood the OP's question was that he had correctly, > following the error message, converted to using numbers instead of > strings, but then didn't understand the obtained result. > > > >> sidenote: super cool talk by Bartek Szopka about floating point numbers > in > >> JavaScript (and other languages) held at JSConf.eu 2013 > >> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqHDDtVYJRI > > This is interesting, nice. I come from a background where numerical > precision and memory layout is often a concern (e.g. physics > simulations, hardware readout), but these types of things I think can > be more easily forgotten when using higher level languages like > javascript, python, etc. Imo it's still an essential understanding to > have. >
