Re: I need a math genius!
| From: | Philip Hallstrom | Date: | Fri, 09 May 2003 22:54:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: I need a math genius! | ||
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might find something in here...
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.bc.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.gmp.php
On Fri, 9 May 2003, Jason Caldwell wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to divide, subtract and add *very* large unsigned integer numbers --
> no floating point numbers. In PHP I'm limited to an integer no larger than:
> 2,147,483,647 ...
>
> How is it possible to calculate much, much larger numbers?
>
> For example, say I want to add the following number:
>
> (7827363524473290039928827730299288277102938474655367299188272630 +
> 7829817981291982837938719793747646199192739190198791238479832)
>
> ---
>
> I'm ok at math, but not too skilled in it -- so, if the above can be
> calculated using Floating Numbers - great! -- however, if possible, I'd like
> to stick to unsigned integers.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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