note 23967 added to language.operators.arithmetic
| From: | niekomaatjes at hotmail dot com | Date: | Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:54:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 23967 added to language.operators.arithmetic | ||
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Someone wrote:
(int)($foo / $bar) will not always work because the number "5" in float could actually be
represented as 4.9999... etc. which (int) will
convert to 4.
To avoid this, you can add a real tiny fraction to the total, like this:
(int)($foo / $bar + 0.0000001)
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