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Bug #74407 number goes wrong when json_encode
Submitted: 2017-04-10 16:43 UTC Modified: 2017-04-11 13:56 UTC
From: martin dot leni83 at gmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Not a bug Package: json (PECL)
PHP Version: 7.1.3 OS: Ubuntu
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2017-04-10 16:43 UTC] martin dot leni83 at gmail dot com 
Description:
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When you do this very basic math and json_encode the result, the number encoded is not the one expected. 
It turns back to the right value when decoded.

Test script:
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$number = 0.95*3;
echo $number."\n";
echo $json = json_encode([$number])."\n";
echo $array = json_decode($json)[0];

Expected result:
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2.85
[2.85]
2.85

Actual result:
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2.85
[2.8499999999999996]
2.85

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 [2017-04-11 13:56 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2017-04-11 13:56 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/

Thank you for your interest in PHP.

Note that this very issue is particularly related to[1]:

| serialize_precision is used instead of precision when encoding
| double values.

[1] <http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php#refsect1-function.json-encode-changelog>
 
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