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Bug #77139 intval gives wrong results
Submitted: 2018-11-11 18:06 UTC Modified: 2018-11-11 18:16 UTC
From: markus at senoner dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: *Math Functions
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Linux (any)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2018-11-11 18:06 UTC] markus at senoner dot com 
Description:
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Please try:
echo intval(8.2*1000);
echo intval(8.2*100);
echo intval(8.2*10);
echo intval(8.2*1);

result:
8200
819   <--- this is wrong!
82
8

happens in PHP 7.2 as well as in PHP 5.X

If 819 is the result of an internal representation of 8.2 as 8.199999..., than why does the first operation in this example not give 8199 ?!?

Expected result:
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8.2*100 should give 820, not 819

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 [2018-11-11 18:14 UTC] spam2 at rhsoft dot net 
http://php.net/manual/de/language.types.float.php
 [2018-11-11 18:16 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2018-11-11 18:16 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/

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