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Bug #41733 float substraction doesn't return 0
Submitted: 2007-06-18 23:48 UTC Modified: 2007-06-24 08:02 UTC
From: mc at glouglou dot net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Math Functions
PHP Version: 5.2.3 OS: Ubuntu
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-06-18 23:48 UTC] mc at glouglou dot net 
Description:
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Came up with this numbers in a web-app.

I've tested this on various platform (Linux/Windows) and PHP version 4.3.9, 5.1, 5.2.1 and 5.2.3 with default php.ini

Reproduce code:
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<?php echo(859-832.35-26.65) ?>

Expected result:
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0

Actual result:
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-2.13162820728E-14

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 [2007-06-19 05:09 UTC] pajoye@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.
 [2007-06-24 08:02 UTC] mc at glouglou dot net 
Ok. 
Thanks for your answer and the reference.
 
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