diff --git a/src/Phpml/FeatureExtraction/TfIdfTransformer.php b/src/Phpml/FeatureExtraction/TfIdfTransformer.php
index 2360560..da1f25f 100644
--- a/src/Phpml/FeatureExtraction/TfIdfTransformer.php
+++ b/src/Phpml/FeatureExtraction/TfIdfTransformer.php
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class TfIdfTransformer implements Transformer
 
         $count = count($samples);
         foreach ($this->idf as &$value) {
-            $value = log(floatval($count / $value), 10.0);
+            $value = log((float)($count / $value), 10.0);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Phpml/Preprocessing/Normalizer.php b/src/Phpml/Preprocessing/Normalizer.php
index 591ca72..22ba555 100644
--- a/src/Phpml/Preprocessing/Normalizer.php
+++ b/src/Phpml/Preprocessing/Normalizer.php
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class Normalizer implements Preprocessor
         foreach ($sample as $feature) {
             $norm2 += $feature * $feature;
         }
-        $norm2 = sqrt(floatval($norm2));
+        $norm2 = sqrt((float)$norm2);
 
         if (0 == $norm2) {
             $sample = array_fill(0, count($sample), 1);