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I have a situation where I cast a double variable to integer. and its giving me wrong result. Why is this happening? 

>>> $amount = (double) 1052.10 => 1052.1 >>> $amount = $amount * 100; => 105210.0 >>> (int) $amount; => 105209 // weird

I am able to fix it by rounding the variable first ( ie: (int) round($amount)),

But still, I wonder why is this happening?

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The 'warning' section here states:

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.

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Why would intval work? This essentially does the same thing as casting.
@Devon You're right, I did some more testing and the output seems to be the same, thanks!

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