Re: Serious Bug?

On 16 Sep 2002 17:32:06 -0700 Jeff Buck <jeffb@umci.com> wrote: > OK, I made a bug report the other day, but haven't seen/heard anything > about it, so I'm posting this. I looked around and couldn't find any > existing bug, but there's a lot to dig through counting the lists and > stuff, but this bug seemed pretty major to me, and it's reproducible on > a number of systems here. > > here's the code: > > http://www.umci.com/testcode.phps > > and here's the output on our system: > > http://www.umci.com/testcode.phtml Take a look to the php general and php dev archives, you will find every informations you need about using floats with php (or any others langages). In resume, two floating numbers are *never* equal (you can get 2 with a bit luck, but you better to never consider them as equal). You can test it with mysql too, or javascript. hth pa