Number Format function

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Rick Zantow  <rzantow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> print number_format( 2312753.44500000, 2 )
>2,312,753.44
>>>> print number_format( 2312753.44500001, 2 )
>2,312,753.45
>
>I would expect the first to produce the same results as the second, but, 
>I suppose because of one of floating point's features, it doesn't work 
>that way.

>>> 2312753.44500000
2312753.4449999998
>>> 2312753.44500001
2312753.4450000101

So, yeah, the nature of floating points is going to make that
first one round "unexpectedly".

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