368288 - Error while adding float numbers

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 20140

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Xavier OTTOLINI]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8

An error occures when I try to add float numbers with Javascript. The result is sometimes false.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a page with the following script :
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[

	var e = 4.290 + 75.030;
	alert(e);
</script>
2. Open the page with Firefox
3. The result is 79.32000000000001.
Actual Results:  
The result is 79.32000000000001

Expected Results:  
The result should be 79.32

Comment 1

[Xavier OTTOLINI]

Attachment: HTML file to test the error

Comment 2

[x0]

Duplicate of bug 20140.