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Labels: area-core-library
, type-enhancement
Summary: The user proposes a new function truncateAsFixed()
to truncate a double to a fixed number of decimal places without rounding, as toStringAsFixed()
currently rounds the value. The user believes the rounding behavior of toStringAsFixed()
is not sufficiently clear in the documentation.
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I'm not sure that functionality is available in JavaScript, and it's something we'd have to fix manually.
It's also unclear what truncation should do, fx for the double value written as 10.43
. That is, what string is 10.43.truncateAsFixed(2)
.
It looks like it should give "10.43"
, obviously, but the actual value for that double is slightly less than the rational number 10.43 (it's 10.42999999999999971578290569595992565155029296875 to be precise). What is printed by 10.43.toString()
is itself rounded. So realistically, you'd probably see 10.43.truncateAsFixed(2)
being "10.42"
. Quite surprising and probably not what you want.
So you do want rounding. You just want "the right rounding", which is actually quite hard to define.
The only way to win is not to play. Use integers for computations, then format them when you're done.
(Generally, it's just not recommended to use floating point numbers for money. Truncating may do what you want here, if defined in some way, or it may not, but since doubles can't correctly represent all multiples of 1/100, they're not necessarily well suited for anything where the precise value is important, and where rounding wrong can cost someone money. There are definitely places where using floating point numbers for money transactions is downright illegal.)
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