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bcscale

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

bcscale — Imposta il valore di precisione di default per tutte le funzioni matematich BCMath

Descrizione

bool bcscale ( int $precisione )

Questa funzione imposta il valore di default del parametro precisione per tutte le funzioni BCMath susseguenti, che non specifichino esplicitamente un parametro di precisione numerica. Restituisce TRUE in caso di successo, FALSE in caso di fallimento.

Esempi

Example #1 esempio di bcscale()

<?php

// precisione di default : 3
bcscale(3);
echo 
bcdiv(1056.55957); // 16.007

// la stessa cosa, senza utilizzare bcscale()
echo bcdiv(1056.559573); // 16.007

?>


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bcscale
mwgamera at gmail dot com
05-Dec-2007 06:45
These functions DO NOT round off your values. No arbitrary precision libraries do it this way. It stops calculating after reaching scale of decimal places, which mean that your value is cut off after scale number of digits, not rounded. To do the rounding use something like this:
<?php
       
function bcround($number, $scale=0) {
               
$fix = "5";
                for (
$i=0;$i<$scale;$i++) $fix="0$fix";
               
$number = bcadd($number, "0.$fix", $scale+1);
                return   
bcdiv($number, "1.0",    $scale);
        }
?>
invincible at limitedintelligence dot com
08-Feb-2006 03:50
If you don't set the default scale, be careful when you're chaining together several BC math functions - since by default, these functions will round off your values, losing accuracy very quickly:

<?php
$a
= 1.234
$b
= 2.345
$c
= 7.890

$ab
= bcmul($a,$b);           // 2
$abc = bcmul($ab,$c);

echo
$abc;                 // 15
?>

... compare with the answer you get when you use more decimal places:

<?php
$a
= 1.234
$b
= 2.345
$c
= 7.890

bcscale
(15);
$ab = bcmul($a,$b);           // 2.893730
$abc = bcmul($ab,$c);

echo
$abc;                 // 22.83152970
?>

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