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Bug #44277 when round() rounds a number -1<x<0, then it returns -0 (should be 0)
Submitted: 2008-02-28 00:28 UTC Modified: 2008-03-04 11:55 UTC
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Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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From: felix dot ospald at gmx dot de Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Math related
PHP Version: 5.2.5 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2008-02-28 00:28 UTC] felix dot ospald at gmx dot de
Description:
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This bug was already reported for Linux 3405 in 2000. Is this a bug or feature?

Reproduce code:
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echo round(-0.1);

Expected result:
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"0"

Actual result:
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"-0"

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 [2008-03-03 13:15 UTC] jani@php.net
Floating point values have a limited precision. Hence a value might 
not have the same string representation after any processing. That also
includes writing a floating point value in your script and directly 
printing it without any mathematical operations.

If you would like to know more about "floats" and what IEEE
754 is, read this:
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
 
Thank you for your interest in PHP.


 [2008-03-03 13:16 UTC] jani@php.net
# php -n -dprecision=32 -r '$a=-0.1; var_dump($a);var_dump(round($a));'
float(-0.10000000000000000555111512312578)
float(-0)

 [2008-03-04 11:55 UTC] felix dot ospald at gmx dot de
Yes I was aware of the limited precision.
But I'm still wondering if it is a good idea to have a positive and a negative zero as output of rounding operations that both should be mathematically the same zero which has noting to do with a limited float precision. Rounding is not like taking a left or right limit to the next integer. It also inherits problems in some cases e.g.: 

echo (((round(0.1).'EUR') == (round(-0.1).'EUR')) ? 'EQUAL' : 'NOT EQUAL');

gives: "NOT EQUAL"

MATLAB for example also doesn't have a negative zero here.

>> digits(32)
>> sym(-0.1,'d')
 
ans =
 
-.10000000000000000555111512312578
 
>> sym(round(-0.1),'d')
 
ans =
 
0
 
>>
 
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