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		Pxtl on Nov 22, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Telescope That ‘Ate Astronomy’ Is on Track to Surp... Or just can't do a calculation right because single precision floats lack the granularity for it.

bzbarsky on Nov 22, 2016 [–]

JavasScript uses double precision floats, unless you're working with float32 typed arrays.

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