I like to think that I'm reasonably aware of the limitations of floating
point (famous last words).
To my mind, the ridiculousness (probably not a word) of the example is
highlighted by the fact that 75.81 and 75.83 work perfectly.
Roberto Mansfield wrote:
Internally, 75.82 can't be stored exactly, so 75.82 * 100 is probably
7581.999992 rather than the expected integer value of 7582. So intval is
behaving properly. Sounds like you want intval(round($a));
tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Very weird and counter intuitive. Looking at the php manual, I see this:
Converting to integer from floating point:
"When converting from float to integer, the number will be rounded towards zero."
But you'd think the multiplication would happen before the rounding.
if you do:
$a = ceil(75.82 * 100);
you should get the proper answer.
This is what I used for testing:
<?php
$x = 75.82;
$y = 100;
echo "x is " . gettype($x) . "<br>\n";
echo "y is " . gettype($y) . "<br>\n";
$a = ceil($x * $y);
echo "a is " . gettype($a) . "<br>\n";
echo "intval(a) is " . gettype(intval($a)) . "<br>\n";
echo $a . " *** " . intval($a);
?>
Not sure that really helps, but seems to be some kind of order of precedence issue.
-TG
= = = Original message = = =
This sort of thing really isn't helpful...
<?php
$a = 75.82 * 100;
echo intval($a);
?>
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