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JavaScript Interview Question #32: 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 === 0.3

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At a first glance, the answer is true as 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 is obviously equal to 0.3 .

But that’s only before we get into the details of how the numbers are represented in JavaScript.

If you try to execute the statement console.log(0.1 + 0.2) in JS, you’ll get a number 0.30000000000000004.

This happens because in JavaScript and quite a few other programming languages some decimal numbers can't be represented exactly as they are.

For example 0.1 in binary will result in an endless fraction, the same way as 1/3 becomes 0.333(3) in the decimal number system.


ANSWER: false will be logged to the console.

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Gyandeep Singh

It even gets more interesting with subtraction.
0.3 - 0.1 = 0.19999999999999998

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Absolutely! And the reason is the same.

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Alexandre Plt

Same should also happen in many languages implementing the IEEE 754, great question!

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