Re: math problem

On Monday 14 April 2003 05:00, John W. Holmes wrote: > Probably a floating point error problem. If you store 5000.00 into a > variable, since it's a floating point number, it's perfectly acceptable > to store 4999.99999999 into the field (with the appropriate amount of > significant digits). So if you turned right around and compared that to > an integer 5000, it's not going to be equal. > > You could probably solve your problem by casting $LoanAllowance to an > integer (you're not going to lend cents, are you?) and then do the > compariston. > > $LoanAllowance = (int)$LoanAllowance Or better still, use the BCMath functions if they are available on your version of PHP. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Save the whales. Collect the whole set. */