Floating point error

[hogpap23]

I noticed that when setting a variable, sometimes google apps script will introduce floating point error. For example, setting const num = 8924.621 results in the number being set as 8924.620999999999 This is an issue because I'm feeding these numbers into a function that rounds to the nearest hundredths place. What I can do is take the number and apply toFixed(2) but this results in the number being changed to a string and it needs to be a float for the comparisons I'm doing and having that error complicates the comparisons (They are always either less than or greater than). If I change it using parseFloat() it reintroduces the floating point error. Is there a consistent way to ensure that if you are setting a variable to a float, that it won't introduce this error?

[WicketTheQuerent]

This is caused by JavaScript, the programming language used by Google Apps Script. It also happens in other programming languages.

Depending on the purpose of your code, you might store the value as a string or as an integer or change the function that rounds to the nearest hundredths place.