Compare floats in php

Question

I want to compare two floats in PHP, like in this sample code:

$a = 0.17;
$b = 1 - 0.83; //0.17
if($a == $b ){
 echo \'a and b are same\';
}
else {
 echo \'a         


        

Answer 1

If you have a small, finite number of decimal points that will be acceptable, the following works nicely (albeit with slower performance than the epsilon solution):

$a = 0.17;
$b = 1 - 0.83; //0.17

if (number_format($a, 3) == number_format($b, 3)) {
    echo 'a and b are same';
} else {
    echo 'a and b are not same';
}