Is floating-point addition and multiplication associative?

Floating point addition is not necessarily associative. If you change the order in which you add things up, this can change the result. The standard paper on the subject is What Every Computer Scientist Should Know about Floating Point Arithmetic. It gives the following example: Another grey area concerns the interpretation of parentheses. Due to … Read more

How to force JS to do math instead of putting two strings together [duplicate]

You have the line dots = document.getElementById(“txt”).value; in your file, this will set dots to be a string because the contents of txt is not restricted to a number. to convert it to an int change the line to: dots = parseInt(document.getElementById(“txt”).value, 10); Note: The 10 here specifies decimal (base-10). Without this some browsers may … Read more