On Tue, April 18, 2006 10:19 am, Chris Boget wrote:
> What's going on here:
>
> $number = 50.1234567890;
> echo sprintf( '%.05f', $number );
>
> result: 50.12346
>
> $number = 5.1234567890;
> echo sprintf( '%.05f', $number );
>
> result: 5.12305
>
> $number =
You are going beyond the number of significant digits PHP can handle so it
is truncating beyond that. In the second case it look sstrange, the 12305
ending, but it is probably a 'round' number if you put it in binary, but it
turns funny when converted to decimal. In the last example, the pre
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