Reduce or solve calculative errors in Javascript

Question

Sometimes simple algebra can result in floating accuracy errors. in this case, I encountered 12 * 1.6 which resulted in 19.20000000003

Is there a way to catch this issue or prevent it from happening? Accuracy is highly important so simply rounding or truncation would not be enough.

The reason for the error is that 1.6 in binary has infinite decimals. We can maybe point out possible solutions if you provide more context. — , Dec 14 '21 at 13:27
@DIGI_Byte wrote: "Accuracy is highly important" what actually do you mean by that? — theking2, Dec 14 '21 at 15:05

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '21 at 13:23

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No. Its the nature of floating point arithmetic. You only have so much accuaracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic

answered Dec 14 '21 at 13:23

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