A strange db calculation error

[dodgyJim 0]

Hiya,

I have a strange problem. In my db table I have a field called "shipping". It obviously holds a dollar amount.

I am looping through my products and calculating the shipping charges. This is where it gets interesting.

In the db I have an amount like 1.30, when I loop through the query and calculate (shipping * quantity) it screws the amount up.

Shipping = 1.30
Quantity = 2

2 x 1.30 is giving me 2.59999990463
Whatever happened to 2.60?

Any ideas?

cheers.

[wickning1 0]

Floating point arithmetic is always screwy on computers because converting a decimal to binary cleanly isn't possible. Just make sure you always round things to the precision you need. In MySQL ROUND(2.599999, 2) = 2.60