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Bug #68589 sprintf decimal number formatting
Submitted: 2014-12-11 06:41 UTC Modified: 2014-12-11 17:43 UTC
From: vardhane at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Strings related
PHP Version: 5.6.3 OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2014-12-11 06:41 UTC] vardhane at gmail dot com
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.sprintf
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<?php
$format = '%10.2f';
$args = 103790.3550;
$result = sprintf ($format, $args);
?>

Test script:
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Hello Team,

When I am using sprintf to format my decimal 2 decimal places it is giving weird results. I tried the following,

0.405 = 0.40
0.415 = 0.41
0.425 = 0.43
0.435 = 0.43
0.445 = 0.44
0.455 = 0.46
0.465 = 0.46
0.475 = 0.48
0.485 = 0.49
0.495 = 0.49 

Please Help!

Expected result:
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103790.36

Actual result:
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103790.35

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 [2014-12-11 17:43 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2014-12-11 17:43 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://www.floating-point-gui.de/

Thank you for your interest in PHP.


 
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