Re: simple math computation..

i found the culprit. i remembered, that i use to pass the value with.. number_format($totalCost, 2, ".", ",") so the values being received by my computation has a "," comma 4,000 so that is why i always get wrong values. thanks again! On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:02:32 -0700, Matthew Fonda <mfonda@dotgeek.org> wrote: > Howdy. > > It seems to work fine for me, perhaps you have a typo along the lines > some where. > > <?php > $totalCost = 4000; > $shippingestimate = $totalCost * .20; > echo $shippingestimate; > ?> > > echoes 800 > > -- > Regards, > Matthew Fonda > > > > On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 23:26, Louie Miranda wrote: > > the percent of 20% is = .20 right? > > how can i compute the correct value for this? > > > > my $totalCost is $4,000 and when i compute it to .20 using this method.. > > > > $shippingestimate = $totalCost * .20; > > > > i get the value for the shippingestimate = $0.8 which is wrong.. it should $800 > > what seems to be wrong? > > > > -- > > Louie Miranda > > http://www.axishift.com > > -- Louie Miranda http://www.axishift.com