Comments on: 0.1*3 = 0.30000000000000004

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Why SOMETIMES … isNaN(String == Number) …. — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:21:36 +0000

[...] Maybe it has something (the way it parses a string to a number or visa versa) to do with rounding Numbers…see what Arno has to say… [...]

Bazard — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:53:23 +0000

Hello,

I asked the question before to Tinic Uro, an engineer working on the Flash Player. You can see his explanations in the comments.

Hope this helps.

Arno van Oordt — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:06:55 +0000

I got the following comment (on another site which displays these posts as well):
“It is caused by the way floating points are stored:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Accuracy_problems “