Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54985&edit=1
ID: 54985
Updated by: cataphr...@php.net
Reported by: jille at hexon dot cx
Summary: round doesn't work with non-14 precision
-Status: Open
+Status: Assigned
Type: Bug
Package: *Math Functions
Operating System: n/a
PHP Version: 5.3.6
-Assigned To:
+Assigned To: cataphract
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
Previous Comments:
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[2011-06-03 16:10:14] jille at hexon dot cx
Description:
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Round() doesn't work right when the precision is set to e.g. 16.
The last comment in #51701 also makes notice of this. (However it seems
unrelated to that bugreport.)
Bug #5500 states that you shouldn't set the precision higher than the data-type
can hold. If that's still true I think we should add a warning when setting the
precision too high instead of just accepting it and trying to work it out.
_php_math_round in ext/standard/math.c cites:
if ((precision_places = php_intlog10abs(value)) > 0) {
precision_places = 14 - php_intlog10abs(value);
} else {
precision_places = 14;
}
and I guess 14 shouldn't be hardcoded there.
Test script:
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php > ini_set('precision', 30);
php > var_dump(round((5.5/100), 3));
Expected result:
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float(0.055)
Actual result:
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float(0.0550000000000000002775557561563)
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