I am a bit shocked, too. But yeah, I think you are right, I tried it
with the subtraction assignment (-=), too and I have the same return.
The second queer thing is that Macromedia says:
"The following statement subtracts the floating-point number 1.5 from
the floating-point number 3.25 [ 3.25 - 1.5 = 1.75 ]"
That is true, flash trace it right!
I am confused,
greets johannes
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Apologies if this is common knowledge, but I've just come across a huge maths
problem in Flash... as I've mentioned before I'm working on an online trading
system where real people make or lose real money, sometimes a huge amount of
it, so this isn't funny...
Here's some simple arithmetic..
var a:Number = 171.9;
var b:Number = 172.2;
var c:Number;
c = b - a;
Now an elementary school kid would probably give the answer 0.3
Unfortunately Flash has other ideas...
trace(c);
0.299999999999983
I'm a bit shocked to be honest. Am I imagining it?
I'm aware that AS3 introduces proper integers and floats for arithmetic, but that doesnt address my problem now.
What says the wise Chattyfig community??
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