Re: A little maths problem
| From: | Martin | Date: | Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:14:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: A little maths problem | ||
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Perry Loh wrote:
> Any workaround to this ?
Hm, tricky, because the largest int-number php has is 2147483647...
>
>
> "Martin" <martin@thomatechnik.de> wrote in message
> news:399908FD.58F595E8@thomatechnik.de...
> > 2235957251 is binary 10000101010001100000000000000011. That means, the
> first bit
> > is set, which is interpreted as the "sign-bit" in most
> programming-languages.
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > Perry Loh wrote:
> >
> > > A little question on maths, why does PHP return the following answer :
> > >
> > > 2634023077 xor 407240870 = -1730242778
> > >
> > > whereas the correct result should be actually,with a calculator :
> > >
> > > 42634023077 xor 407240870 = 2235957251
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if this is a bug, if it is or isn't , is there a
> workaround to
> > > get the correct answer ? BCMath does not seem to provide enough
> functions
> > > though.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
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