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I was using parseInt() to get some big prime numbers, but it’s working as expected. For example,
parseInt("18014398241046527", 10); // Gives me 18014398241046528??
parseInt("18014398241046528", 10); // Gives me 18014398241046528
parseInt("18014398241046529", 10); // Still gives me 18014398241046528??
I tested them on both Chrome version 20.0.1132.47 and Firefox 12.0. Was this because the numbers that I was trying to parse were too large?
This is not an issue with
parseInt; this number is too long (too precise – see nhahtdh’s answer) for JavaScript’s Number data type (proof:+"18014398241046527"yields18014398241046528as well).I think the only way to work around this is to input the number as a string and work on it in chunks.