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by dottrap 4405 days ago
Douglas Crockford (JavaScript: The Good Parts) has talked about this problem with binary floating point to do decimal (human) math, on many occasions.

Here is one such instance. http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/03/10/when-you-cant-count-o...

He has been on a crusade to introduce a decimal based floating point standard because he believes it is finally time we revisit this decision to use binary floating point.

Edit: spelling