note 49285 deleted from function.serialize by aharvey

Note Submitter: gafunchal NOSPAN at inf dot ufrgs dot br ---- (please, excuse my poor English) 'serialize' does strange things with floats, this code: $a = 3.14; $s = serialize($a); $fp = fopen("storage", "w"); fwrite($fp, $s); fclose($fp); outputs something like (PHP 5.0.2): d:3.140000000000000124344978758017532527446746826171875; I wonder why serialize doesn't store data (not only float, I mean all types of data) in a more 'economic' format. Maybe binary is not the best option (there can be trouble storing it in databases), but there are still a lot of other possibilities.