note 124860 added to function.pi
| From: | divinity76 at gmail dot com | Date: | Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:49:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 124860 added to function.pi | ||
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the documentation is wrong, pi()'s return value has nothing to do with the
precision ini-setting, at least on 64bit amd64 php 7.3.7, pi() always return
3.141592653589793115997963468544185161590576171875 , no matter what the precision is set to.
you can easily test this yourself with:
<?php
ini_set("precision","2");
$answer=3.141592653589793115997963468544185161590576171875;
var_dump(
pi() === $answer,
number_format(pi(),99,".","")
);
?>
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