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!
>
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