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General Discussion Create an Array of Objects

Melbourne Hauk
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Excessive/incorrect decimals in computations of total value

For some reason when logging the total value to the console I get a value with a lot of decimal digits but none of the numbers used to compute were like this. Does anyone know why this might be?

Here is what was logged in the final step: [ 'potato chips', 'pretzel sticks', 'string cheese' ]
87.70000000000002

And here are my array values:

products.push(
  {
    name : 'potato chips',
    inventory : 10,
    unit_price : 4.29
  },
  {
    name : 'pretzel sticks',
    inventory : 10,
    unit_price : 3.49
  },
  {
    name : 'string cheese',
    inventory : 10,
    unit_price : 0.99
  }
)

2 Answers

Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
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Because of how numbers are stored, very small errors may occur. One good way to handle this is to format calculation results rounded to a fixed number of decimal places when displaying it.

The ".toFixed" and ".toPrecision" methods can be useful here.

Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
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Melbourne Hauk — Glad to help. You can mark a question solved by choosing a "best answer".
And happy coding!

Piotr Manczak
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So let's say:

function totalValue(array){
    let t = 0;
    array.forEach(i => t += i.unit_price * i.inventory);
    return t.toFixed(2);
}

It isn't perfect but it makes things look good.