LOL fp precision

I'm a code noob, so I'm teaching myself different concepts that I may need. I'm using PHP because it's easy. Today I was working on serialization... rendering live data in ram into a string so that it can be transmitted or stored statically.

I happened across some sillyness while dealing with a floating point number:

Code:

<?php
$ar["four"] = "chan";
$ar["foo"] = array("bar" => "foobar");
$ar["bob"] = "bob";
$ar["spleen"] = 199;
$ar[5] = 1.222;
$serialar = serialize($ar);
echo "$serialar\n";
$unserializedar = unserialize($serialar);
print_r ($unserializedar);
?>

output:

a:5:{s:4:"four";s:4:"chan";s:3:"foo";a:1:{s:3:"bar";s:6:"foobar";}s:3:"bob";s:3:
"bob";s:6:"spleen";i:199;i:5;d:1.22199999999999997513100424839649349451065063476
5625;}
Array
(
    [four] => chan
    [foo] => Array
        (
            [bar] => foobar
        )

    [bob] => bob
    [spleen] => 199
    [5] => 1.222
)


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