If you need precision with floats or doubles you can use BCMath
Arbitrary Precision Mathematics Functions.http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.bc.php Andy Pablo Luque wrote: > Hello, Im designing a website in which I have to read some data > (numbers) from a txt file and then send this data to a function which > prints a graphic with them. When I read the data I save it in an array > and the numbers are in this format: 5.812E-08. I have read the php > documentation about it, and I have use the example given there to > check which type is the data saved in the array. The response I got is > $vectorIc[1]== 5.812E-08 type is string > > I dont understand why. In the documentation it is clear that this kind > of data should be considerer float, or thats what I understood. I cant > continue with my web designing if I dont get to turn the vector > elements into float numbers, because the function that prints the > graphic gives errors when recieving strings. I would be very thankful > if you could help me trying to solve this. In using PHP 4.4.7 and > Apache 2.0.59. > > Thank you very much! > > _________________________________________________________________ > Descubre la descarga digital con MSN Music. Más de un millón de > canciones. http://music.msn.es/ > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
