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Wouldn't that have more to do with the fact that javascript uses floats for everything? It's probably exceeding precision at a guess.

• malkia 17y ago
  Is it? I thought Javascript has integer type. Say for example Lua (by default) is configured to use only double. It can be configured to use single-float, or even integer - but only one numeric type.
  • pmjordan 17y ago
    Standard JavaScript uses doubles everywhere. They get casted to 32-bit signed integers for bitwise operations, the results are casted back. It's a little odd, but consistent at least.
    • andreyf 17y ago
      A little odd and a lot slow, if you do them a lot (js-protobuf, I'm looking at you).
      • jrockway 17y ago
        Execution tracing should eliminate the cast if it is not necessary.
  • mrcharles 17y ago
    Ah. I don't know the inner workings of Javascript so I'm not surprised I was wrong. Just at a glance, that problem to me screams floating point limitation.