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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
You can use it to fix the float-number bug in javascript.
const fixfloat = require('fixfloat');
const floatNumber = 0.1 + 0.2; // 0.30000000000000004
fixfloat(floatNumber); // 0.3
You can also use it to round your number.
const fixfloat = require('fixfloat');
const floatNumber = 3456.3456;
fixfloat(floatNumber); // 3456.3
fixfloat(floatNumber, 2); // 3456.35
fixfloat(floatNumber, 1); // 3456.3
fixfloat(floatNumber, 0); // 3456
fixfloat(floatNumber, -1); // 3460
fixfloat(floatNumber, -3); // 3000
npm install fixfloat --save
FAQs
fix float number bug or round float number
The npm package fixfloat receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, fixfloat popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that fixfloat demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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