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		Severian on July 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cryptocurrency trading bot in ~40 lines of JavaScr... After a cursory glance, is it me or is floating point being used? I thought this was something you wanted to avoid because of precision errors. ie 0.2 * 0.1

uberneo on July 25, 2019 [–]

This will work!!

parseFloat((0.2 * 0.1).toFixed(10))

treve on July 25, 2019 | [–]

The issue is more obvious when rounding something like 0.5, which, due to lack of precision can become either 0 or 1.

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