2008/5/11 Chris W <2wsxdr5@xxxxxxx>:
> jo opp wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > $var1= 2155243640%31104000;
> > $var2= 2147309244%31104000;
> >
> > echo $var1 // Return -24651656
> > echo $var2 // Return 1133244
> >
> > $var2 return the correct result, but $var1 is wrong (the correct
> > result is 9067640)
> >
>
> Probably because the maximum signed 32 bit integer value is
> 2,147,483,648
>
OK, but with bigger numbers works fine again.
Right now I made a function to deal with this issue:
function remainder($dividend,$divisor){
$remainder= $dividend-(floor($dividend/$divisor)*$divisor);
return $remainder;
}
What do you think about it?
> if you are dealing with numbers that large, consider using some arbitrary
> precision math functions that can work with as large of numbers as you need.
>
>
> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/refs.mathcrypto.math.php
>
>
>
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