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Rounding floating point or fixed precision numbers in Javascript
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// returns a string. fixed is an optional boolean flag to switch on fixed precision or not. | |
// If you want a number instead of a string prepend the unary plus operator, but then fixed precision cannot be guaranteed. | |
// -0.1 * 0.2 === -0.020000000000000004 | |
// round(-0.1 * 0.2, 3, true) === "-0.020" | |
// round(-0.1 * 0.2, 3) === "-0.02" | |
// +round(-0.1 * 0.2, 3) === -0.02 | |
// +round(-0.1 * 0.2, 3, true) === -0.02 | |
const round = (value, decimals, fixed) => { | |
const r = Number(Math.round(value + 'e' + decimals) + 'e-' + decimals) | |
return fixed ? r.toFixed(decimals) : r + '' | |
} |
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