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		ivanhoe on May 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP: md5('240610708') == md5('QNKCDZO') All of this I can understand, but why then octal numbers are not compared the same way is beyond me? `var_dump(0xA == '0xA'); // bool(true) var_dump(012 == '012'); // bool(false)`

seanp2k2 on May 4, 2015 [–]

Check out which types those examples get cast to and it should make more sense :) I don't know the exact rules for type detection in PHP, but it looks like that's the cause.

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