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Bug #43267 Error in Floating Point Operation
Submitted: 2007-11-12 18:30 UTC Modified: 2007-11-12 18:59 UTC
From: armadillo at penguinfriends dot org Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Math related
PHP Version: 5.2.5 OS: CentOS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-11-12 18:30 UTC] armadillo at penguinfriends dot org 
Description:
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The is a bug in many php versions with a floating point operation. Tested PHP-Versions: 4.4.1 (Debian Sarge (3.1)), 5.0.4 (OpenSuse 10.0 x86_64), 5.2.5 (CentOS 5). It is a conversion from float to int, which doesn't work correct. See the reprocedure code and the expected result for more.

When running it on the ssh-console on CentOS 5, on the native login console, the following output will be generated:

setitimer: php (pid = 2731) provided invalid timeval it_value: sec = -1 tv_usec = 0

Hope this will help! ;)

Reproduce code:
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<?php echo (int)(100*2.55); ?>

Expected result:
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255

Actual result:
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254

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 [2007-11-12 18:59 UTC] johannes@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.

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