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Number Formatting, Where Do The Extra Decimals Come From?


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This is a common, although not widely known, aspect of computers: they don't store numbers cleanly. For example, in many languages, this condition would be false:

(1/3 * 3) == 1

 

So internally, PHP is adding those extra digits (or, to be precise, the computer's architecture is).

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