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Inaccuracies with large numbers (e.g. 1e36) #3

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beaugunderson opened this issue Mar 22, 2021 · 0 comments
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Inaccuracies with large numbers (e.g. 1e36) #3

beaugunderson opened this issue Mar 22, 2021 · 0 comments

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Using anything larger than 1e15 as a literal in JavaScript can result in inaccuracies... Currently 1e36 is used as a literal in this codebase, you can see it's not exactly what you expect:

> BigInt(1e36)
1000000000000000042420637374017961984n
> 10n ** 36n
1000000000000000000000000000000000000n
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