Re: bug 43053 - scientific notation
| From: | Antony Dovgal | Date: | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:10:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: bug 43053 - scientific notation | ||
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On 03/13/2008 07:03 PM, Ryan Brothers wrote:
> While I understand that the way floating point numbers are stored can vary
> and shouldn't be relied upon, I'm more curious why a change was made in PHP
> 5.2.2 to print certain numbers in scientific notation
In 5.2.1 string-to-double routines were changed to use BSD licensed
code (previous version was LGPLed).
What you see is just an unintentional side-effect of this update.
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Wbr,
Antony Dovgal