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Re: [PHP3] Values greater than 2billion From: Richard Lynch (rlynch <email protected>)
Date: 08/30/99

There's a bcmath package that I understand handles big numbers.

If I knew more than that, I'd tell you.

At 02:24 PM 8/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm working with values greater than 2 billion in
>several of my apps. Most often, this comes from
>allowing the user to input monetary values then
>converting that value to a specific currency value
>using the currency's exchange rate. When I do this
>calculation, I get scientific values returned (ie
>6.3492E+09). When I use the variables with those
>values in them for comparison, the comparison
>(unsurprisingly?) fails.
>How can I compare generated values over 2billion?
>
>Chris
>
>
>
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