Subj : Re: Arithmetic Precision Question.
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Martin Honnen
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 03:02 pm



chris.omland@gmail.com wrote:

 > I read in the
> newsgroup archives that Rhino will convert to a double when performing
> arithmetic, is there a way to configure the context or the Rhino engine
> to return an int if it is only given int or will it always return a
> double? I am using version 1.5.4.

JavaScript only has one number type and that implements IEEE double 
precision floating point numbers. So there is no int or integer type, 
you will have to round and/or format a number for output if you want to 
look at the integer part only.

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	Martin Honnen
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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