I’m using Basics.logBase and am getting a surprising result. logBase 10 1000 returns 2.9999999999999996. This is problematic for my overall algorithm as I am expecting to be able to use floor to accurately find how many digit “places” I need. Any way I can get logBase 10 1000 to return 3 as expecte…

Basics.logBase is implemented as log number / log base, where log is just Math.log from Javascript. The rounding errors you are seeing comes from the floating-point division happening here. There also exists Math.log10 in Javascript, which yields better results, but does not exist in Internet Explo…

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