int is useless

[Tyhm]

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

It's probably more complex than you think it is. PHP is a very good language. The point I was trying to make, though, was that you should try and not use non-terminating decimals, or at least round them to terminating decimals.

Using large decimals is bound to cause problems. For instance, in GS2 "7.999969482 - 8" produces 0. But, "7.99 - 8" produces -0.01. So, I wouldn't say that int() is useless. It just faces the same problems that other languages face when it comes to floating points.

I'd love to, but it's difficult to determine if the bitflag 262143 contains 32768 (2^15th) or not without doing a little division.