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

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