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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

The source of this appears to be that 0.0000001.toString() == "1e-7". Presumably parseInt first converts its argument to a String (which kinda makes sense).

Of course the more important question is why are you passing a number to parseInt?