note 108606 deleted from function.bcpow by salathe

Note Submitter: github.com/alixaxel/phunction/ ---- If anyone else is also going nuts with the second argument being casted to an integer -- see https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=10116 -- (and thus being unable to calculate roots using bcpow), I wrote a convenient wrapper around BCMath functions that solves this problem (while respecting PEMDAS): <?php var_dump(BC('4.0 ^ 0.5')); // 2 var_dump(BC('4.0 ^ 2.5')); // 32 var_dump(BC('4.8 ^ 2.5')); // 2.1908902300207... var_dump(BC('4.0 ^ 1 / 3')); // 1.3333333333333... var_dump(BC('4.0 ^ (1 / 3)')); // 1.5874010519682... var_dump(BC('4.0 ^ 2.5 >= 4.0 ^ 0.5')); // 1 ?> The source is a bit long to post here, but you can get it at https://github.com/alixaxel/phunction/blob/c9e276713d3981a08043a95cc94cf96f264e39d4/phunction/Math.php#L74.