Correction needed: "JavaScript Numbers are represented by IEEE 754 64-bit (double precision) floating point values, not fixed Decimal values. Because of this, some values (such as 0.3) are less precise as the fractional values used and whole numbers are only accurate to 2^52-1."
What this means is some bits (of 64) are for the whole number portion, and others are for the divisor.
For those curious, the "Dave's Garage" channel on YouTube went over the interesting history of this.
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