PHP returns incorrect total

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MeroD
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Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:51 pm

Floating-point data types like DOUBLE are approximate and do not represent exact numbers.

number_format($...total) may give you better results.
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johnj
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Thu Nov 08, 2012 8:23 am

It is better to use the bcmath function for math calculations.
http://php.net/manual/en/book.bc.php
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