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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Date arithmetic
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:40:25 +0100
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Gene Wirchenko wrote:

> 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, how do
> you avoid it?

I meant "I rarely do divisions, that need to be exact, in ECMAScript
implementations" (and should have written that -- sorry).  Either a
potentially unexact result wouldn't do harm (for instance, when setting
certain CSS properties) or I deliberately round the result.  Furthermore
I do the server-side programming in PHP, so some of the calculations are
redone there, anyway, so I don't mind potentially unexact temporary
results in buggy ECMAScript implementations.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker