insufficient incrementation

[Dormilich]

Hi,

I’ve got a mathematical script, which is currently running fine*, although it bothers me that JS does not always increment correctly. sometimes it happens that the incremented value is slightly bigger/smaller (around the 12th decimal place) than it should be (I’m usually incrementing by 0.1). because of that it affects the accuracy of the results.

incrementation:
- Fn.search() line 239 & 248
value assignment:
- Fn() line 83-85

full code

can anyone shed some light on this matter?

* - even if you can’t read German, after some trials you should know what each button/field is for.

[gits]

that is due to javascript's number representation - taken from MDC here:

Numbers in JavaScript are "double-precision 64-bit format IEEE 754 values", according to the spec. This has some interesting consequences. There's no such thing as an integer in JavaScript, so you have to be a little careful with your arithmetic if you're used to maths in C or Java. Watch out for stuff like:

0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004

so basicly there are some things to do when you do math with decimal values in JavaScript ... you could round the values or implement some function that fix that issue, in case you need to.

kind regards

[Dormilich]

besides rounding, do you have any idea how to do this?

[gits]

not really ... i don't use JavaScript math with that precision ... mostly in business cases where simple rounding rules will do the job. but i guess there are some theoretical concepts that could handle it ... may be you could start further research from here?

kind regards

[Dormilich]

actually, I hardly need more than a 3 digits precision.* (I use it for solving dissociation equations when comparing experiment data with theoretical values)


* - besides that, it’s a fun/self-training project

[EDIT]
do you see anything, where I should do improvements?

[gits]

:) are you asking for a code review? ... besides of the mixing of different ways to build/declare objects/methods i don't see anything that i would change. personally i always prefer the 'classical' way to build JavaScript objects and would always use the prototype for their methods, but as i said ... that is my personal view ... i think that methods shouldn't alloc memory everytime an instance of the obj is created while member-variables that store 'plain-data' need to do so ...

kind regards

[Dormilich]

besides of the mixing of different ways to build/declare objects/methods i don't see anything that i would change.

that’s already quite helpful.