diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d4cc381c..2c7c538c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ NEWS
   * Do not pass Proxy-Connection: header from client to backend http server in mod_proxy (#1877)
   * Fix wrong malloc sizes in mod_accesslog (probably nothing bad happened...) (fixes #1855, thx ycheng)
   * Some small buffer.c fixes (closes #1837)
+  * Remove floating point math from server.c (fixes #1402)
 
 - 1.4.20 - 2008-09-30
 
diff --git a/src/server.c b/src/server.c
index d20c1c3b..92d79cd8 100644
--- a/src/server.c
+++ b/src/server.c
@@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) {
 		if (srv->sockets_disabled) {
 			/* our server sockets are disabled, why ? */
 
-			if ((srv->cur_fds + srv->want_fds < srv->max_fds * 0.8) && /* we have enough unused fds */
+			if ((srv->cur_fds + srv->want_fds < srv->max_fds * 8 / 10) && /* we have enough unused fds */
 			    (srv->conns->used < srv->max_conns * 0.9) &&
 			    (0 == graceful_shutdown)) {
 				for (i = 0; i < srv->srv_sockets.used; i++) {
@@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) {
 				srv->sockets_disabled = 0;
 			}
 		} else {
-			if ((srv->cur_fds + srv->want_fds > srv->max_fds * 0.9) || /* out of fds */
+			if ((srv->cur_fds + srv->want_fds > srv->max_fds * 9 / 10) || /* out of fds */
 			    (srv->conns->used > srv->max_conns) || /* out of connections */
 			    (graceful_shutdown)) { /* graceful_shutdown */