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On 7/15/2016 6:49 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:36:38 -0400, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
> wrote:
>> JavaScript is a great language for many things, but I would not
>> pick it for financial calculations.
>
>      "financial calculations" is rather vague.

True.

>                                                Adding up items on an
> invoice is financial calculations.

Yes. And one of the cases where floating point should not be used.

Arne