Something’s not working the way it seems like it should.
numericValue(\abs(${num1}-${this.numericValue}))<=0.00001
When I … num1=0 and this.numericValue=0.000000000001
I saw … false
But I expected … true
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No bug here.
The numericValue function returns the numeric value of a string. Here, you’re interpolating numeric values into strings and then finding the numeric value of that string. When you interpolate 10^-12 here’s what you get:
1e-12
which means your numeric value isn’t doing 0-0.000000000001, its calculating 0-1e-12, which computes to:
To avoid this, use simpleFunction and evaluate it at the numeric values.
Generally you only want to use a numericValues to perform calculations if you know that the numbers you’re interpolating are easy numbers to work with.
