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Bug #51215 math minus operator returning wrong result?
Submitted: 2010-03-05 16:37 UTC Modified: 2010-03-05 16:38 UTC
From: fjsjeurope at hotmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.3.2 OS: Linux and windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-03-05 16:37 UTC] fjsjeurope at hotmail dot com
Description:
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When doing certain operations with minus operator the result is not correct. It seems to affect numbers ending in .01 when doing substraction operations (except for 1.01 that seems to work fine)



Test script:
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$test = 15.01 - 15;
echo $test;

$test = 50.01 - 50;
echo $test;

Expected result:
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The result should be 0.01 

Actual result:
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I returns results like 0.0099999999999998

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 [2010-03-05 16:38 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2010-03-05 16:38 UTC] aharvey@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
 
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