From 79613bd59fa5600e36f86f2ffb60c09a2d96c86f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marla Schulz <marlaa.schulz@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 12:05:08 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Switch to Number(), see:
 https://github.com/phetsims/perennial/issues/275

---
 js/toFixedPointString.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/js/toFixedPointString.ts b/js/toFixedPointString.ts
index 420df04..96b6b49 100644
--- a/js/toFixedPointString.ts
+++ b/js/toFixedPointString.ts
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ function toFixedPointString( value: number, decimalPlaces: number ): string {
   }
 
   // Remove negative sign from -0 values.
-  if ( parseFloat( stringValue ) === 0 && stringValue[ 0 ] === '-' ) {
+  if ( Number( stringValue ) === 0 && stringValue[ 0 ] === '-' ) {
     stringValue = stringValue.substring( 1, stringValue.length );
   }