Rounding error prevents last penny from being paid out

JavaScript
#1

Tell us what’s happening:
Hello,
The idea was that I am counting out the bills, starting from the largest. However, on the third test, when it subtracts the second 20$ bill, a rounding error of a very small amount seems to get introduced. At the end that results in the last penny not being paid out and the test fails. I am stuck on why this might be the case. Any hints would be highly appreciated.

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Your code so far


function checkCashRegister(price, cash, cid) {
var change = {
  status: "OPEN",
  change: []
};
let billRef = {
  "PENNY": 0.01,
  "NICKEL": 0.05,
  "DIME": 0.1,
  "QUARTER": 0.25,
  "ONE": 1,
  "FIVE": 5,
  "TEN": 10,
  "TWENTY": 20,
  "ONE HUNDRED": 100
}
let amountDue = cash - price;
for (let i = cid.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
  let currentBillVal = billRef[cid[i][0]];
  let currentBillAmt = cid[i][1];
  let currentBillName = cid[i][0];
  if (currentBillVal <= amountDue) {
    let nextBill = [currentBillName]
    let toGiveFromCurrent = 0;
    while (amountDue >= currentBillVal && currentBillAmt >= currentBillVal) {
        console.log(amountDue)
        toGiveFromCurrent = toGiveFromCurrent + currentBillVal;
        currentBillAmt = currentBillAmt - currentBillVal;
        amountDue = amountDue - currentBillVal;
    }
    nextBill.push(toGiveFromCurrent)
    change.change.push(nextBill);
  }
}



return change;
}

// Example cash-in-drawer array:
// [["PENNY", 1.01],
// ["NICKEL", 2.05],
// ["DIME", 3.1],
// ["QUARTER", 4.25],
// ["ONE", 90],
// ["FIVE", 55],
// ["TEN", 20],
// ["TWENTY", 60],
// ["ONE HUNDRED", 100]]

console.log(checkCashRegister(3.26, 100, [["PENNY", 1.01], ["NICKEL", 2.05], ["DIME", 3.1], ["QUARTER", 4.25], ["ONE", 90], ["FIVE", 55], ["TEN", 20], ["TWENTY", 60], ["ONE HUNDRED", 100]]));

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Challenge: Cash Register

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#2

It’s just a problem that arises from the way computers handle decimal numbers. With this particular challenge, where we know that we will never have fractions of cents, I think that the easiest way to deal with it is to avoid floating point precision at all. I chose to simply multiply everything by 100 at the beginning (do the math in cents rather than dollars) and then divide by 100 at the end. Up to you though. There are ways to fix the precision issues after the fact.

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Program duplicating last entry
#3

Could solve it like that. Thank you!

#4