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Wed 2021.02.17
post 13 'I was just curious to know why . . . '
@NewAtEspruino while I don't have a solution to your initial inquiry, I am able to provide a link to a wealth of other links that should assist in your curosity discovery.
The simple answer is found in the differences and complexities that result when using both
Base2 and Base10I noticed in post #1 that text chars
ref: \r\n and indexOf()provide a representation of what a microprocessor actually stores in it's Base2 equivalent. Humans view a representation of a number that we know as a numeral0 - 9(a String element or Char representation of a Base10 numeral) while the underlying mechanism relies on a 'Charateristic' and 'Mantissa' (Floating Point) that allows the magic of binary numbers to work.Had to revisit this topic over a year ago and included many links and examples to how floating point works under the hood. Note in post #4 (there) the number of digit differences between browsers and Espruino
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Thank you so much @fanoush and @Gordon for the explanation.
@Gordon : the values doesn't always have 6 decimal places, it could be at times 5 or at times none.
1180.952381 and 1180.95238100000 are the same number, however, I was just curious to know why values like 1175.824176 get stored as 1175.82417599999 or with extra zeroes at the end.
Thanks for all your help as always!