Small mistake in the tutorial

[kirby555]

Good afternoon admin,

 

This morning I try to learn the Javascript through the tutorial, I found some small mistake in this tutorial.

 

JavaScript > JS Numbers > under Precision section

 

 

<script>

function myFunction() {

x = (0.2*10 + 0.1*10) / 10;

document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "0.2 + 0.3 = " + x;

}

</script>

The output will be: 0.2 + 0.3 = 0.3

Tutorial Link:

http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_inaccurate3

[davej]

Well, as an example that one is pretty horrible anyway, even without the error. I think what they were hinting at is valid in that you can multiply dollars by 100 to create cents and then work in whole cents until you get to the final result and then divide by 100 and use toFixed(2) to achieve an accurate result.

[Ingolme]

Their solution is a decent one.

Floating point operations can often give you results like 0.40000000000001 or 0.99999999999998 for apparently no reason.

 

By multiplying and dividing you can avoid that problem.

console.log(0.1 + 0.2); // Shows 0.30000000000000004console.log( (0.1 * 10 + 0.2 * 10) / 10 ); // Shows 0.3

[Hadien]

a more in-depth explaination on Floating point calculationshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRI1IfStY0