Re: Re: [fw-general] Re: [PHP-DEV] ZF 0.8.0 Unit Tests behaving different on PHP 5.2.1 and PHP 5.2.2-dev
| From: | Marcus Boerger | Date: | Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:53:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [fw-general] Re: [PHP-DEV] ZF 0.8.0 Unit Tests behaving different on PHP 5.2.1 and PHP 5.2.2-dev | ||
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Hello Sebastian,
lemme try this again. You can in no way rely on the last digits of a float
output. Those depend on your system, your CPU, your ini settings and any
operation you do with floats reduces the accuracy....
best regards
marcus
Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 7:45:57 PM, you wrote:
> Marcus Boerger wrote:
>> float numbers are never perfect values. So should in anyway never rely
>> on a certain output format. So there is nothing to document here.
> We have a changed behavior here that should be documented. Otherwise
> users will run into problems. As the non-academic example that raised
> this discussion shows.
> - Sebastian
Best regards,
Marcus