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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Date arithmetic
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:13:04 +0000
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"Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> writes:

> Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> wrote on 19 nov 2014 in 
> comp.lang.javascript:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:52:40 +0100, "Christoph M. Becker"
>> <cmbecker69@arcor.de> wrote:
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>>>ACK -- assuming that there are no implementation errors.  I rarely do
>>>float calculations in ECMAScript implementations, so I don't know if
>>>this assumption is reasonable.  Probably it is.
>> 
>>      Since it is the only number type available for variables, 
>
> What about integers?

ECMAScript does not have a separate integer type.  You can represent any
integer in (2^53, 2^53) exactly (and zero twice!) using the built-in
Number type, but you are still using a floating point type as far as the
language definition goes.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.