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by Dylan16807 3715 days ago
Integers will do no better at pretending to be a decimal type without a library.
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snuxoll 3715 days ago
Sure, but most other languages have built-in support for decimal types. Java has BigDecimal, as does Ruby, Python has the decimal module, C# has System.Decimal, the list goes on.

Javascript doesn't even have proper integers to guarantee the functioning of this correctly, it's a really sad state.

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Dylan16807 3715 days ago
>Javascript doesn't even have proper integers to guarantee the functioning of this correctly

I don't understand what you mean at all. Javascript should be able support a decimal library just as easily as a language with integers.

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