RE: [PHP] I need a math genius!

Have a look at the BCMath functions...they support mathematical operations with numbers of "any size". (In practical terms, it looks like that probably means up to maxint digits, but I haven't looked into the source code to verify that. (The numbers and results are actually stored as strings rather than numeric types. See http://www.php.net/bc for all the nitty-gritty. --- Mark Roedel | "Blessed is he who has learned to laugh Systems Programmer | at himself, for he shall never cease LeTourneau University | to be entertained." Longview, Texas, USA | -- John Powell > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Caldwell [mailto:jason@thinkingman.org] > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:47 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] I need a math genius! > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >