Closed Bug 413965 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

35.05 - 5 = 30.049999999999997

Categories

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Error Console, defect)

Product:
Toolkit Graveyard
Component:
Error Console
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5856

People

(Reporter: kenfehling, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 When I type "35.05 - 5" into the error console or "javascript: 35.05 - 5" into the address window, the answer is 30.049999999999997 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Evaluate (35.05 - 5) using JavaScript 2. 3. Actual Results: 30.049999999999997 Expected Results: 30.05 I tested this on Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Beta.
This is a result of how floating point numbers are held according to the ecmascript spec
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Product: Toolkit → Toolkit Graveyard
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