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Bug #16036 in_array() with pow()
Submitted: 2002-03-13 06:15 UTC Modified: 2002-03-13 06:55 UTC
From: goodman888 at hongkong dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Math Functions
PHP Version: 4.1.0 OS: Solaris
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-03-13 06:15 UTC] goodman888 at hongkong dot com 
$a = pow(2,31);
$b = array($a);
var_dump( in_array(2147483648, $b));


$b = array(2147483648);
var_dump( in_array(2147483648, $b));


// this is the result. how come there are different?
bool(false) bool(true)

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 [2002-03-13 06:20 UTC] mfischer@php.net 
var_dump() _ONLY_ works on variables.
 [2002-03-13 06:23 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
This is a variation of the commonly asked floating point number comparison question.  At numbers beyond 2^31-1 pow() returns a float.  Doing exact comparisons of an integer against a floating point value in any computer language is tricky because of the way floating point numbers are represented.  You could make sure your precision is set the way you want and convert to a string, or apply a fuzz factor.
 [2002-03-13 06:47 UTC] goodman888 at hongkong dot com 
Can anyone give me a "workable" version?

I've tried even to convert all numbers into integers, floats or whatever. It still does not work.
 [2002-03-13 06:55 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
The bug database is not the place to ask questions like this.  And like I mentioned, just convert to a string:

    $a = pow(2,31);
    $b = array("$a");
    echo in_array(2147483648, $b);

That prints 1
 
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