Cause there is no exact representation of PI, you get a floatingpoint representation of nearly zero.
Try: echo intval(cos(0.5*pi())); echo printf("%.1f",cos(0.5*pi())); Op donderdag 31 januari 2002 13:39, schreef michael Rabbitte: > I was wondering about the cos fuction in PHP when I try to get cos of 90 > degrees I'm not getting 0 but some weird no. (i.e 6.28...E-17) is there > anything I can do to get zero as my answer. P.S. I have converted my > degrees to radians! > Mike. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]