PC is IEEE754?

[Andrew G. Koptyaev]

As I understand PC with x86 CPU is IEEE754 floating point standart.

Then out of:
<?php
print (19.6*100)!==(d ouble)1960;
?>
will be 1.

It's true ?

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: PC is IEEE754?

Andrew G. Koptyaev wrote:

As I understand PC with x86 CPU is IEEE754 floating point standart.
>
Then out of:
<?php
print (19.6*100)!==(d ouble)1960;
?>
will be 1.
>
It's true ?
>

Did you try it?

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[Tim Roberts]

Re: PC is IEEE754?

"Andrew G. Koptyaev" <koptyaev@gmail .comwrote:

>
>As I understand PC with x86 CPU is IEEE754 floating point standart.
>
>Then out of:
><?php
>print (19.6*100)!==(d ouble)1960;
>?>
>will be 1.
>
>It's true ?

As Jerry said, you can find out for yourself whether this prints 1 or not.

However, I would like to point out that IEEE-754 compliance does NOT
guarantee the result. 19.6 cannot be represented exactly in binary. In
binary, it is an infinitely repeating value. Thus, the floating point
representation will be an approximation -- very close to 19.6, but not
exactly equal.

When you multiply by 100, it is quite difficult (without knowing the exact
binary representation) to predict whether rounding will help or hurt.
--
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

[rf]

Re: PC is IEEE754?


"Andrew G. Koptyaev" <koptyaev@gmail .comwrote in message
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As I understand PC with x86 CPU is IEEE754 floating point standart.
>
Then out of:
<?php
print (19.6*100)!==(d ouble)1960;

Begs the question: Why multiply by 100? Is 19.6 perhaps a $.cents amount? If
so then don't. Store and perform calculations on monetory amounts in
cents(which are always integers and integers are stored exactly in floating
point) and only convert (with suitable rounding) to $s on output.