Description:
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PHP seems to have problems with floats... infact -0.04 + 0.04 is not equal to 1.3877787807814E-017... the operation $num = -0.04 + 0.04 itself returns 0 as expected but if we start from a bigger negative value (such as -4) and we add for several times a positive value (0.04), the result may vary and are quite weird. Note that this problem seems to vary from machine to machine.
I've also tried the same code with c# and other languages and the output is the expected one, so there's no doubt that this is really a php bug.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
 
$start = -0.2;
$end = 0.2;
$step = 0.04;
 
for ($i = $start; $i <= $end; $i += $i) {
 
    echo $i . "<br />\n";
 
}

?>

Expected result:
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-0.2
-0.16
-0.12
-0.08
-0.04
0
0.04
0.08
0.12
0.16
0.2

Actual result:
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-0.2
-0.16
-0.12
-0.08
-0.04
1.3877787807814E-017
0.04
0.08
0.12
0.16

note that there ISN'T the last number (0.2), most probably because the float value is smt like 2.000000000000001

With $start = -8 and $end = 8, the middle output is:

[...]
-0.31999999999999
-0.27999999999999
-0.23999999999999
-0.19999999999999
-0.15999999999999
-0.11999999999999
-0.079999999999993
-0.039999999999993
6.5641936330962E-015
0.040000000000007
0.080000000000007
0.12000000000001
0.16000000000001
0.20000000000001
0.24000000000001
0.28000000000001
[...]

With my machine (win 2k, php 4.3.10), and

[...]
-0.08
-0.04
6.5641936330962E-015
0.04
0.08
[...]

on my web server (linux, php 4.3.10 with modifications, see the links below for further details)

A page with this code is online at: http://nemea.altervista.org/alfa/phpbug.php
Complete php info at: http://nemea.altervista.org/alfa/phpinfo.php