Just remember floating point math in javascript, and I imagine CF too,
is inherently imprecise when you start using numbers like the ones
below.

-- 
 jon
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Monday, December 2, 2002, 10:55:23 PM, you wrote:
C> oi CF-Community,!!

C>   in javascript
C>   this:
C>        var tmpValue = 1321.17405912 * 13.6307948336 * 2.87603038824E-009;
C>        alert(tmpValue);
C>   equals:
C>          0.00005179343195439509


C>   in CF
C>   this:
C>        tmpValue = 1321.17405912 * 13.6307948336 * 2.87603038824E-009;
C>        writeoutput("{" & tmpValue & "}");
C>   equals:
C>          5.17934319544E-005


C>  now mind you I am assuming these values are the same, just in different formats or 
are they not?

C>  and  if  they  are,  how  you  reckon  I  can  get it back to a regular format, 
cuz it's shaggin my
C>  calculations....

C>  Crit

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