Doc #66745 [NEW]: Scientific notation

From: eric dot vercherat at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant Package: BC math related Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:Scientific notation Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/ref.bc --- It's not mentioned in the documentation that BC Math doesn't support scientific notation. Please make something about it. Test script: --------------- $a = '1' ; $b = '0.00000001'; $result = bcdiv($a, $b); var_dump($result); $a = '1' ; $b = '1e-8'; $result = bcdiv($a, $b); var_dump($result); Expected result: ---------------- string(40) "100000000.000000000000000000000000000000" Actual result: -------------- Warning: bcdiv() [function.bcdiv]: Division by zero in C:\wamp\www\utilitaires\test_bcdiv.php on line 17 NULL -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66745&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=66745&r=mysqlcfg