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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's because parseInt is expecting a string, so the decimal gets converted to a string, and 0.0000005.toString() returns 5e-7.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

More like javascript L, even python would throw a TypeError for this example.