RangeError: precision is out of range

The JavaScript exception "precision is out of range" occurs when a number that's outside of the allowed range was passed into toExponential, toFixed, or toPrecision.

Message

RangeError: toExponential() argument must be between 0 and 100 (V8-based & Safari) RangeError: toFixed() digits argument must be between 0 and 100 (V8-based & Safari) RangeError: toPrecision() argument must be between 1 and 100 (V8-based & Safari) RangeError: precision -1 out of range (Firefox) 

Error type

What went wrong?

There was an out of range precision argument in one of these methods:

Examples

Invalid cases

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(77.1234).toExponential(-1); // RangeError (77.1234).toExponential(101); // RangeError (2.34).toFixed(-100); // RangeError (2.34).toFixed(1001); // RangeError (1234.5).toPrecision(-1); // RangeError (1234.5).toPrecision(101); // RangeError 

Valid cases

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(77.1234).toExponential(4); // 7.7123e+1 (77.1234).toExponential(2); // 7.71e+1 (2.34).toFixed(1); // 2.3 (2.35).toFixed(1); // 2.4 (note that it rounds up in this case) (5.123456).toPrecision(5); // 5.1235 (5.123456).toPrecision(2); // 5.1 (5.123456).toPrecision(1); // 5 

See also