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PHP and Lua's log function breaks monotonicity expectations

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Lobsters ·

A bug in PHP and Lua causes the log function to return non-monotonous results, violating mathematical expectations. The issue arises from floating-point precision and affects calculations where monotonicity is assumed. Developers relying on log for algorithms may encounter unexpected behavior.

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While niche, this highlights how language quirks can silently break mathematical assumptions in production code.
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