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Floats in PHP: Handling Decimal Numbers
A float (a floating-point number) is a number with a decimal point or a number in exponential form.
In the following example, $x is a float. The PHP var_dump() function returns the data type and value:
Example Code:
<?php
$x = 10.365;
var_dump($x);
?>
Output:
The above code will produce the following result-
float(10.365)