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		aweiland 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love ... What is 0.1 + 0.2 in JavaScript. I'll give you a hint, it's not 0.3. Is that fine?

viraptor 1 day ago | [–]

That's not a JavaScript issue. It's the same for almost any language where you don't use some bignum type/library. This is something all developers should be extremely aware of.

baq 1 day ago | [–]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

To answer your question directly - yes, it’s fine, it’s actually expected behavior.

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