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Bug #42871 bcmath incorrect results / number format
Submitted: 2007-10-05 18:57 UTC Modified: 2007-10-05 23:49 UTC
From: rbro at hotmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: BC math related
PHP Version: 5CVS-2007-10-05 (snap) OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-10-05 18:57 UTC] rbro at hotmail dot com
Description:
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When adding certain floating point numbers together using bcadd (or using the other bcmath functions), I'm receiving invalid results at times depending on the inputs.  It appears that with recent PHP releases, PHP is expressing certain floating point numbers in scientific notation which bcmath is not correctly handling.  Using my example below, PHP is expressing the number 1200000.00 as 1.2E+6 which is causing incorrect results from bcadd.


Reproduce code:
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<?php
bcscale(2);
echo bcadd(1200000, 1)."\n";
echo bcadd(1200000.00, 1)."\n";


Expected result:
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1200001.00
1200001.00


Actual result:
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1200001.00
1.00


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 [2007-10-05 23:49 UTC] jani@php.net
These functions expect a _string_ to be passed to them.
You're not supposed to pass any float/integers, as they're simply cast to string and you get this _expected_ behaviour.
 
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