RE: [flexcoders] Re: When does 0.2 and 0.1 not equal 0.3?

2009-11-30 Thread Gordon Smith
ou're manipulating. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 5:17 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: When does 0.2 and 0.1 not equal 0.3? This is a pretty well known lim

Re: [flexcoders] Re: When does 0.2 and 0.1 not equal 0.3?

2009-11-25 Thread Chris
This is a pretty well known limitation of floating point numbers. A workaround: http://joshblog.net/2007/01/30/flash-floating-point-number-errors/ Another option around this is to use the toPrecision() function of Number/Int to convert a number to a String and then compare the Strings. var num1