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PHP Version 5.1.6
Why do i get this value in a simple operation?
<?php
echo (1.2 - 0.1) - 1.1;
?>
result = -2.2204460492503E-016
Sounds like it’s the same as in Java: you’re working with floats, which arn’t ‘exact’. I presume they’re an approximation of the value you’d like stored, and for a certain amount of decimals, they’re exact, but not if you want it more precise. I believe by default PHP does 15 decimals exact. But displaying a value that ‘approximates’ 0 would have that effect I guess, especially with the scientific notation. intval() would work to solve this problem:
[php]
<?php echo intval((1.2 - 0.1) - 1.1); ?>[/php]
yes its a solution but i need to have precision on this function and when this happens it blows.
If you want precision, floats arn’t the way to go. If you know how many decimals you want, you could use integers and multiply them by 10^x (where x is the amount of decimals). That way, no precision will be lost and you’ll be working with exact numbers. To display the integer, you could divide by 10^x to make it a decimal number and echo 
As a cheap alternative, there’s round().