note 75695 deleted from language.types.integer by googleguy

Note Submitter: me at troyswanson dot net ---- This note applies to machines that are using a 32 bit integer size. I imagine the same results occur in 64 bit machines as well (with the number 2^63-1). -2147483648 falls into the range of 32 bit signed integers (0b10000000000000000000000000000000), yet php treats it as a float. However, -2147483647-1 is treated as an integer. The following code demonstrates: <?php var_dump(-2147483648); //float(-2147483648) var_dump(-2147483647 - 1); //int(-2147483648) ?> Regards