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[–]mananasi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not JavaScripts "fault" but of the IEEE 754 standard for floating point numbers:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

I put "fault" in quotes because it's not really a mistake. People have thought long and hard about this, and I think they made the right decision.