intermittent rounding errors

[dominictarr]

some times numbers don't come out exactly like they came in...

https://gist.github.com/1237220

it's only the smallest end of the scale, but still important.

strangely, it only happens sometimes.

[Floby]

Hey, i was just passing through and saw this issue.
I would say it comes from the fact that Floats are floating point numbers in Javascript. This causes some inaccuracies for some numbers.
here's where i found it http://floating-point-gui.de/

[creationix]

I guess this is because of how I parse numbers character-by-character using math. I guess the alternative would be to store the number as a string and parseFloat it at the end. Either way, it's probably not good to depend on floats for exact values for the reasons @Floby pointed out.

[crertel]

Want a PR for this?

[RWOverdijk]

👍

[stringparser]

Same here, if no one takes the lead I'll give it a try 😸

[crertel]

Oh wow. Totally forgot about this. I'll try to have something this week.

[stringparser]

No hurry :), recently I found this way useful to make a lightweight JSON database and was checking on things

[czzarr]

Any progress planned on this ?

[jeromew]

I believe this issue has been resolved in 1.2.0 after 044b268