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parseInt(5) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] danda@lemmy.zip 94 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's because parseInt is expecting a string, so the decimal gets converted to a string, and 0.0000005.toString() returns 5e-7.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Common Dynamic Typing L

[–] AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

More like javascript L, even python would throw a TypeError for this example.