floor() in php not working - php

<?php
echo gettype ( 5.00 ); // return double
echo gettype((5)); // return integer
echo gettype(((167.00-158.65)/167.00*100)); // return double
echo floor(5.00); // return 5
echo floor(5); // return 5
echo ((167.00-158.65)/167.00*100); // return 5
echo floor(((167.00-158.65)/167.00*100)); // return 4
var_dump(5.00); // return float(5)
var_dump(5); // return int(5)
var_dump((167.00-158.65)/167.00*100); // return float(5)
var_dump(intval(5)); // return int(5)
var_dump(intval((167.00-158.65)/167.00*100)); // return int(4)
echo gettype(intval(((167.00-158.65)/167.00*100))); // return integer
echo floor(intval((167.00-158.65)/167.00*100)); // return 4
?>
Why floor function in php not working in last case?
How to get 5 from last statement?
Is there any other function or method in php to get exact least amount?

That behaviour is caused by limited precision of floating point numbers. The last case is of type float (check it with var_dump), and the Manual says:
Warning
Floating point numbers have limited precision. Although it depends on
the system, PHP typically uses the IEEE 754 double precision format,
which will give a maximum relative error due to rounding in the order
of 1.11e-16. Non elementary arithmetic operations may give larger
errors, and, of course, error propagation must be considered when
several operations are compounded.
Additionally, rational numbers that are exactly representable as
floating point numbers in base 10, like 0.1 or 0.7, do not have an
exact representation as floating point numbers in base 2, which is
used internally, no matter the size of the mantissa. Hence, they
cannot be converted into their internal binary counterparts without a
small loss of precision. This can lead to confusing results: for
example, floor((0.1+0.7)*10) will usually return 7 instead of the
expected 8, since the internal representation will be something like
7.9999999999999991118....
Source:
http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.float.php

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(int) does not type-convert multiplication result correctly [duplicate]

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If I use (int) to convert a product between a float type variable and an integer, the result is not what I expect it to. Please see my code.
The expectation is that the result is 4090270, not 4090269
(int)(4090270.0) works correctly
$amount = 40902.70; // Same for 40902.20
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According to PHP documentation
Floating point numbers have limited precision. Although it depends on the system, PHP typically uses the IEEE 754 double precision format, which will give a maximum relative error due to rounding in the order of 1.11e-16. Non elementary arithmetic operations may give larger errors, and, of course, error propagation must be considered when several operations are compounded.
Additionally, rational numbers that are exactly representable as floating point numbers in base 10, like 0.1 or 0.7, do not have an exact representation as floating point numbers in base 2, which is used internally, no matter the size of the mantissa. Hence, they cannot be converted into their internal binary counterparts without a small loss of precision. This can lead to confusing results: for example, floor((0.1+0.7)*10) will usually return 7 instead of the expected 8, since the internal representation will be something like 7.9999999999999991118....
See this reference.
Try like this.
$amount = 40902.70; // Same for 40902.20
$amounts= intval(strval($amount*100));;
echo $amounts;
Note: intval and int converts doubles to integers by truncating the fractional component of the number.
For more info check : reference
$test1 = intVal(1999);
$amount = 19.99 * 100;
$test2 = intVal($amount);
$test3 = intVal("$amount");
echo $test1 . "<br />\n";
echo $test2 . "<br />\n";
echo $test3 . "<br />\n";
expected output:
1999
1999
1999
actual output
1999
1998
1999
Appears to be a floating point issue, but the number 1999 is the only number that I was able to get to do this. 19.99 is the price of many things, and for our purpose we must pass it as 1999 instead of 19.99.

PHP float and int return a different number [duplicate]

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I have been scratching my head at this VERY odd problem. I do some calculations in PHP and the end result is a number. This is a whole number, but because calculations are done, PHP considers this a float. However, when I typecast it as an integer, it magically gets subtracted one. As in 1. A whole integer down. I really am at a loss. Try for yourself.
<?php
$number_of_rows = 10;
$number_of_columns = 19;
$active = array();
$tile = 160;
$column = $tile/$number_of_columns; // 8.42105263158
$rounded_down = floor($column); // 8
$column = $column-$rounded_down; // 0.42105263158
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PHP 7.0.12 on Linux 64 bit.
See the Warning in PHP manual for an explanation.
Excerpt that talks about precision and a floor() example:
Floating point numbers have limited precision. Although it depends on the system, PHP typically uses the IEEE 754 double precision format, which will give a maximum relative error due to rounding in the order of 1.11e-16. Non elementary arithmetic operations may give larger errors, and, of course, error propagation must be considered when several operations are compounded.
Additionally, rational numbers that are exactly representable as floating point numbers in base 10, like 0.1 or 0.7, do not have an exact representation as floating point numbers in base 2, which is used internally, no matter the size of the mantissa. Hence, they cannot be converted into their internal binary counterparts without a small loss of precision. This can lead to confusing results: for example, floor((0.1+0.7)*10) will usually return 7 instead of the expected 8, since the internal representation will be something like 7.9999999999999991118....

PHP expression output [duplicate]

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I found somewhere in book
echo (int) ((0.1 + 0.7) * 10);
output is : 7
echo ((0.1 + 0.7) * 10);
output : 8
why both out are different ? I think answer should be 8
When you write
echo ((0.1 + 0.7) * 10);
the result of this simple arithmetic
expression is stored internally as 7.999999 instead of 8.
Now when the value is converted to int,
echo (int) ((0.1 + 0.7) * 10); // 7.999999 when typecasted to int becomes 7
PHP simply truncates away the fractional part, resulting in a rather
significant error (12.5%, to be exact).
It's because float point at this scenario does not fit to memory and is truncated when converting to integer.
Read about that in PHP manual about float
Warning
Floating point precision
Floating point numbers have limited precision. Although it depends on the system, PHP typically uses the IEEE 754 double precision format, which will give a maximum relative error due to rounding in the order of 1.11e-16. Non elementary arithmetic operations may give larger errors, and, of course, error propagation must be considered when several operations are compounded.
Additionally, rational numbers that are exactly representable as floating point numbers in base 10, like 0.1 or 0.7, do not have an exact representation as floating point numbers in base 2, which is used internally, no matter the size of the mantissa. Hence, they cannot be converted into their internal binary counterparts without a small loss of precision. This can lead to confusing results: for example, floor((0.1+0.7)*10) will usually return 7 instead of the expected 8, since the internal representation will be something like 7.9999999999999991118....
So never trust floating number results to the last digit, and do not compare floating point numbers directly for equality. If higher precision is necessary, the arbitrary precision math functions and gmp functions are available.
Please check http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php and find this
Warning : Never cast an unknown fraction to integer, as this can sometimes lead to unexpected results.
<?php
echo (int) ( (0.1+0.7) * 10 ); // echoes 7!
?>
See also the warning about float precision.

Why floor(0.99999999999999999) = 1 and floor(0.9999999999999999) = 0?

floor function in PHP behave weirdly.
For 16 decimal values it gives floor value but by increasing 1 decimal it round.
$int = 0.99999999999999999;
echo floor($int); // returns 1
$int = 0.9999999999999999;
echo floor($int); // returns 0
$int = 0.99999999999999994;
echo floor($int); // returns 0
Is it defined/explained somewhere, at which point it gives "round" value?
Is there any function which gives 0 anyhow how many 9 in decimals?
It's not floor that rounds, it's floating point math that does.
This line:
echo 0.99999999999999999;
Prints 1 (demo) because 0.99999999999999999 is too precise to be represented by a (64-bit?) float, so the closest possible value is taken, which happens to be 1.
0.99999999999999994 is also too precise to be represented exactly, but here the closest representable value happens to be 0.9999999999999999.
Is it defined/explained somewhere, at which point it gives "round" value?
It's complicated, but the numbers are rounded almost always.
I believe there is no definition of "from when values will be approximated", but that is a mathematical property that follows from the definitions in the IEEE 754 floating point standard.
To be safe, just assume everything is approximated.
Is there any function which gives 0 anyhow how many 9 in decimals?
No. The problem is that, for PHP, 0.99999999999999999 is literally the same as 1.
They're represented by exactly the same sequence of bits, so it can't distinguish them.
There are some solutions to work with bigger precision decimals, but that requires some major code changes.
Probably of interest to you:
Working with large numbers in PHP
Note that while you may get arbitrary precision, you will never get infinite precision, as that would require infinite amounts of storage.
Also note that if you actually were dealing with infinite precision, 0.999... (going on forever) would be truly (as in, mathematically provable) equal to 1, as explained in depth in this Wikipedia article.
$float_14_digits = 0.99999999999999;
echo $float_14_digits; // prints 0.99999999999999
echo floor($float_14_digits); // prints 0
$float_15_digits = 0.999999999999999;
echo $float_15_digits; // prints 1
echo floor($float_15_digits); // prints 1
exit;
on my development machine that behavior happens on digit '15' not '17' like yours. PHP rounds the last digit in the floating numbers. your floor() function has nothing to do with this behavior

Strange behaviour of conditions in PHP

I'm wondering why is output of the following code:
$a = log(5, 5);
$b = round(log(5, 5));
echo 'a: ';
var_dump($a);
echo '<br>';
echo 'b: ';
var_dump($b);
echo '<br>';
echo ($a == $b) ? 'equal' : 'not equal';
this
a: float(1)
b: float(1)
not equal
Thanks to anyone who can explain this to me.
Just to quote the chapter Floating point numbers from the PHP manual:
Warning Floating point precision
Floating point numbers have limited precision. Although it depends on
the system, PHP typically uses the IEEE 754 double precision format,
which will give a maximum relative error due to rounding in the order
of 1.11e-16. Non elementary arithmetic operations may give larger
errors, and, of course, error propagation must be considered when
several operations are compounded.
Additionally, rational numbers that are exactly representable as
floating point numbers in base 10, like 0.1 or 0.7, do not have an
exact representation as floating point numbers in base 2, which is
used internally, no matter the size of the mantissa. Hence, they
cannot be converted into their internal binary counterparts without a
small loss of precision. This can lead to confusing results: for
example, floor((0.1+0.7)*10) will usually return 7 instead of the
expected 8, since the internal representation will be something like
7.9999999999999991118....
So never trust floating number results to the last digit, and do not
compare floating point numbers directly for equality. If higher
precision is necessary, the arbitrary precision math functions and gmp
functions are available.

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