eval expects a string, so the number is converted to a string, and the stringification rounds a tiny bit, so it accidentally produces the right result.

You can prepend a q before the ( to make eval work correctly, i.e. report the difference.

$premium = eval q($number * ( 1 + 10/100 ));
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