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Bug #76105 String to Number conversions
Submitted: 2018-03-16 13:04 UTC Modified: 2018-03-16 14:34 UTC
From: mail at fsax dot ch Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: all
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2018-03-16 13:04 UTC] mail at fsax dot ch
Description:
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Some String to Number conversions create unexpected results that can lead to bad miscalculations.

On the php.net docs i found a warning:
"Never cast an unknown fraction to integer, as this can sometimes lead to unexpected results."

but i think the root of my issue manifests while the float is beeing cast, since the floor() has the same result.

Test script:
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echo ("9312.80" *100)."<br>\n";
echo (((float) "9312.80") *100)."<br>\n";
echo (int) ("9312.80" *100)."<br>\n";
echo floor( "9312.80" *100);


Expected result:
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237280<br>
237280<br>
237280<br>
237280

Actual result:
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237280<br>
237280<br>
931279<br>
931279

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 [2018-03-16 14:34 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2018-03-16 14:34 UTC] cmb@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.

Consider to use round(), number_format(), BCMath, or such.
 
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