.toFixed() returns a string? how can I convert that to floating number

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I tried with the example value x = 123,i want two precision. So, i use x.toFixed(2). Then i will get the output "123.00" but i want the output as 123.00 which is floating number with decimals.

var x = 123
x.toFixed(2);
output: "123.00"
expected: 123.00

No after converting to float also it will give you number only 123 not floating point — Sandeep Bhaskar, Nov 18 '18 at 18:35
@SandeepBhaskar Give a proof? But even after converting into float, 123 is an integer and not a decimal number right? `123` and `123.00` and `123.00000` are all the same. — Praveen Kumar Purushothaman, Nov 18 '18 at 18:36
@SandeepBhaskar So if you want the trailing 0, you need to use a string — user184994, Nov 18 '18 at 18:36
There is a big difference producing a number to _show_ and one to use for _counting_. The one to use for count is not gonna keep trailing zero's as that is not how number works, then one for show can. — Asons, Nov 18 '18 at 18:49

Praveen Kumar Purushothaman · Answer 1 · 2018-11-18T18:44:49.013

A floating point notation or decimal number is not something explicitly declared. When the decimal point has nothing after the point, i.e., .0 It becomes an integer.

The .toFixed() is just for aesthetic purposes only. It also helps you to rounds off to the number of decimals too.

2.50000 and 2.5 are the exact same number. If you want to keep trailing zeroes, you'll have to use a string.

When I try to do this on my Chrome Console:

You can see that even when you do a strict type-checking, the decimals are considered like comments by the JavaScript parser. It might be a bit unclear to understand for developers coming from statically typed or strongly typed languages like Java & C#, where you can have separate float and double types.

Related: JavaScript - Keep trailing zeroes.

Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/183857/discussion-between-sandeep-bhaskar-and-praveen-kumar-purushothaman). — Sandeep Bhaskar, Nov 18 '18 at 19:13

.toFixed() returns a string? how can I convert that to floating number

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