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Pike Msonda

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JS float rounding bug

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I have been familiarizing myself with Stripe API. So far so good but today I run into this interesting bug. Stripe gives currency amounts using cents (if you are in the US). Obviously when displaying to the end user you need to convert to proper readable USDs.

And when you want to updated or make purchases you have to reconvert to cents for the API to accept the request.

3380 * 0.01 // converts to $33.8  nothing special here.
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When completing a payment or charge in my setup. I convert $33.8 dollars back to cents. However when I do so, the resulting amount was not exactly 3338.

33.8 * 100 = 3379.9999999999995
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Because of this Stripe retuned an error.

My first solution was to use parseInt but that returned 3379. This is unsatisfactory since 1 cent has been lost.

A more satisfactory solution was to do the following:

33.8.toString().split('.').reduce((a, b) => a * 100 + b * 10) // 3380
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Another solution would be to round off the float using toFixed like below:

parseInt(33.8 * 100).toFixed()) // 3380
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Peter Vivo •

You right js floating error is quite disturbing.
Here is a little bit more mathematical solution:

const epsilonN = N => num => Math.round( num * N + Number.EPSILON ) / N;
const epsilon2 = epsilonN(1e2);

0.1 + 0.2  // 0.30000000000000004
epsilon2(0.1 + 0.2) // 0.3
epsilon2(33.8 * 100) // 3380
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Pike Msonda •

This looks much better and safe.

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