Does JavaScript have double floating point number precision?

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Travis picture Travis · Aug 31, 2010 · Viewed 29.4k times · Source

I know it's an odd question, but does JavaScript have the capacity to work with double's as opposed to single floats? (64 bit floats vs. 32 bits.)

Answer

Moin Zaman picture Moin Zaman · Aug 31, 2010

All numbers in JavaScript are 64-bit floating point numbers.

Ref:

http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/The_Complete_Javascript_Number_Reference

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/survey.html

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