Rounding a negative number

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$item = sprintf("%0.2f", $item);
print $item, "\n";

The above code prints -992.99 if $item = -993, while it prints 993.00, if
$item = 993.

Why is the rounded number off by 0.01 if the number is negative?

Thanks,
SU


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