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May 1, 2008
toFixed(0) and Date.getTime() bug
I've been able to reproduce a bug several times with the Number.toFixed(0) method in that it returns a "." . Also from what i understand the Date.getTime() should return an int but sometimes it returns a decimal.
So i did a quick exercise to figure out what percentage of returns have this error and i found it's around the 10% of the cases.
var score:uint = 0;
var totalTests:uint = 1000;
for(var i:uint=0;i<totalTests;i++){
var p:Number = Math.random() * 10;
if(p.toFixed(0).indexOf(".") != -1) score++;
}
trace ((score * 100) / totalTests);
It returns me around 8.7 and 10.1 along several calls.
I'm currently writing a workaround method for this.
Also, while developing some customer's AS3 api i noticed that the Date.getTime() was returning a decimal number so i extended my test cases to include this and found that i was correct. I don't know exactly in which situations this occur but i can assure it's happening. Has anyone experienced this before?
-- fernando
