On 13 Nov 2009, at 3:30am, Roger Binns wrote: > Simon Slavin wrote: >> Integers in all languages I'm aware of are not stored as mantissa/exponent, >> they're stored as bits with complete precision. > > There is one huge exception I found out the hard way recently: Javascript > stores all 'integers' as floating point and so Javascript integers lose > precision. For example if you try to use 9223372036854775807 in Javascript > it will keep coming back as 9223372036854776000.
JavaScript doesn't have an integer type, just a number type: var myVariable = 42 document.writeln ( "myVariable is a " + typeof myVariable ) Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
