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A comment on Scribd says: Beat our programmers at a coding challenge.

Re:Scribd says: Beat our programmers at a coding challenge by donall on Thursday May 24, 2012 @08:40PM (#4021330)
Why are the fruit counts represented as floats?
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Re:Scribd says: Beat our programmers at a coding challenge by matthiaskramm on Thursday May 24, 2012 @08:43PM (#4021338)
You can get half a fruit if you and your opponent pick it up at the exact same time.
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Re:Scribd says: Beat our programmers at a coding challenge by epaik on Thursday May 24, 2012 @08:46PM (#4021348)
They didn't really have a choice in the matter! In JavaScript, all numbers are floats.
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Re:Scribd says: Beat our programmers at a coding challenge by pyrotechnick on Thursday May 24, 2012 @10:27PM (#4021595)
Incorrect: http://www.khronos.org/registry/typedarray/specs/latest/

Besides, there's Number.prototype.toFixed().

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