Re: Fwd: [PHP] Bug?
| From: | Tim Streater | Date: | Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:58:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Fwd: [PHP] Bug? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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On 15 Sep 2011 at 22:43, tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> For the floats, http://us2.php.net/operators.comparison makes
> it
> pretty clear (and this has been a well-known thing about floats as far
> back as Uni for me, in 1979).
The fact that floating point hardware has limited precision has been known ever since the first such
hardware in the mid-1950's, in fact.
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Cheers -- Tim