>This is not a new issue. It happens in javascript, too, as I found out >about 6 months ago. Jim was nice enough to point out the problem to me. > >Google "floating point arithmetic" to read up on it. It's complicated, >but makes sense once you get your head 'round it.
Right, I understand the floating point issue and that's fine. I guess my beef is with the fact that val() doesn't understand the scientific notation. I always thought it was better "practice" to do this: #val(a + b)# Rather than: #(a + b)# But now I guess that's not true. And after reading carefully the live docs on val(), I can see why. But I never would have thought of it until now, when I happened upon a combination of numbers that produced this result. And I have been doing full time CF development for 8+ years so it's not for lack of exposure. Oh well. Time to put that cfeclipse regexp search to use. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:226273 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
