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Bug #31803 Erro in Cos function
Submitted: 2005-02-02 04:16 UTC Modified: 2008-03-27 14:22 UTC
From: thiago_mata at yahoo dot com dot br Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Math related
PHP Version: 4.3.10 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2005-02-02 04:16 UTC] thiago_mata at yahoo dot com dot br 
Description:
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The funcion cos it is not return the espected result. While the sin it is ok.

Reproduce code:
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$Angulo = Pi()/2;
print "cos(Angulo) = ".cos($Angulo)."<BR>\n";
print "cos(Pi/2) = ".cos(Pi()/2)."<BR>\n";
print "Angulo = $Angulo <br>\n";
$cos = sqrt(1 - sin($Angulo)*sin($Angulo));
print "Coseno = ".cos($Angulo)."<br>\n Cos = ".$cos."<BR>\n";
print "Seno = ".sin($Angulo)."<BR>\n";


Expected result:
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cos(Angulo) = 0
cos(Pi/2) = 0
Angulo = 1.5707963267949
Coseno = 0
Cos = 0
Seno = 1

Actual result:
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cos(Angulo) = 6.1230317691119E-017
cos(Pi/2) = 6.1230317691119E-017
Angulo = 1.5707963267949
Coseno = 6.1230317691119E-017
Cos = 0
Seno = 1

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 [2005-02-02 08:39 UTC] derick@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.
 
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