35784.45 * 100 is in fact

$ perl -e 'printf "%.15f\n", 35784.45 * 100'
3578444.999999999534339
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See What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic for explanation.

int just removes the part after the dot (for positive numbers, at least). Its documentation contains a list of functions you can use to get more pleasant results.