I know it's an odd question, but does JavaScript have the capacity to work with double's as opposed to single floats? (64 bit floats vs. 32 bits.)
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A:
All numbers in JavaScript are 64-bit floating point numbers.
Ref:
http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/The_Complete_Javascript_Number_Reference
Moin Zaman
2010-08-31 04:02:40
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A:
According to the ECMA-262 specification (ECMAScript is the specification for Javascript), section 8.5:
The Number type has exactly 18437736874454810627 (that is, 264−253+3) values, representing the double-precision 64-bit format IEEE 754 values as specified in the IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic
Source: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ecma-st/ECMA-262.pdf (PDF)
Daniel Vandersluis
2010-08-31 04:05:04