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by worik·1mo ago·view on hn ↗
> JS engines treat numbers as 53 bit signed floats

Please do not use Javascript for finance applications. Just do not do it

Save it for user interface elements and dancing whizzimagigs, where it will do less harm.

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Financial applications need user interface elements too, and doing these poorly has caused quite some [1] harm in the past...

[1] https://financialregulation.linklaters.com/post/102j8af/the-...

Excel does the same thing, and has been used to track money for decades. Somehow, we're all still alive.