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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:27:10 +0900
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.1
From: yohgaki@ohgaki.net (Yasuo Ohgaki)

Hi Andrea,

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> Andrea Faulds wrote:
>>
>> Hi Yasuo,
>>
>> Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
>>>
>>> This discussion is related to
>>>
>>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/precise_float_value
>>>
>>> If you have comment on this, I appreciate it.
>>> Please search old thread for discussions.
>>> I'll start final RFC discussion for this when session RFC is finished.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for bringing that RFC up again, it would improve this
>> situation somewhat. Particularly in that it would use the "0" precision
>> for zend_dtoa, which is the "shortest sequence of digits producing the
>> same value when converted back to a float" behaviour that I mentioned in
>> my email.
>>
>
> This article has a good explanation of the two different approaches:
>
> http://blog.reverberate.org/2016/02/06/floating-point-demystified-part2.html

Nice article!
Added URL to reference section of the RFC.

Regards,

--
Yasuo Ohgaki
yohgaki@ohgaki.net