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Recently, I was trying to figure out a way to create my own arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic library. For those of you unaware, floating point simply means numbers are represented in scientific notation and that allows computers to express really large or really small numbers and everything in between. However, one problem of floating point numbers is that they are normally represented with a limited amount of precision.

Midway changed a lot from its humble beginnings as a simple prototype to the complex extension it is now. Let’s explore how it changed. Check out the latest version of the extension on the Chrome Web Store.

Note that while I’ve done my best to make sure the content here is correct, there may be slight inaccuracies. At time of publishing, there isn’t much documentation on the inner workings of modules in Firefox, but I’m planning on sending in a patch to the official Firefox docs.