I know it's probably due to some sort of rounding technique, but clearly 6.53 + 8 should only equal 14.53. My questions are, why is this happening, and how can I get an accurate sum?
var x = 6.53 + 8;
console.log(x);// 14.530000000000001
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It's because 6.53 cannot be represented exactly in an [IEEE 754 binary64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format). – President James K. Polk Dec 30 '17 at 03:15
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It is normal behavior with JS, Try to use toFixed(2) like this
var x = 6.53 + 8;
console.log(x.toFixed(2));
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Decimal point numbers are represented differently in a computer...and have this problem..u can have that happen in many programming languages...round your number to a certain precision...as long as you don't do advanced computation with JavaScript you will be fine. More info. https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_numbers.asp
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I used `parseFloat(eval(equation_string).toPrecision(10));` and it works well. I'm making a calculator program for fun and ran into this issue. – Frank Dec 30 '17 at 01:28