(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
bcdiv — Divide two arbitrary precision numbers
$left_operand
, string $right_operand
[, int $scale = 0
] )
Divides the left_operand by the
right_operand.
left_operandThe left operand, as a string.
right_operandThe right operand, as a string.
scaleThis optional parameter is used to set the number of digits after the decimal place in the result. If omitted, it will default to the scale set globally with the bcscale() function, or fallback to 0 if this has not been set.
Returns the result of the division as a string, or NULL if
right_operand is 0.
Example #1 bcdiv() example
<?php
echo bcdiv('105', '6.55957', 3); // 16.007
?>
The custom bcdiv function listed at the top of this page produces very different results from bcdiv, as it rounds instead of truncating the result. Consider the following:
<?php
function bcdiv_cust( $first, $second, $scale = 0 )
{
$res = $first / $second;
return round( $res, $scale );
}
echo bcdiv('1','2','0') . " vs. " bcdiv_cust('1','2','0'); // prints '0 vs. 1'
?>
<?php
//converting in to required precision of decimal points
$result= bcdiv(89.99999999997,2.57865741235478,2);
echo "$result"; // 34.90 result with 2 decimal points
?>
Perhaps some one can find useful this function to compute the modular inverse of a integer (extended euclidean algorithm):
function invmod($a,$b) {
$n=$b;
$x=0; $lx=1; $y=1; $ly=0;
while ($b) {
$t=$b;
$q=bcdiv($a,$b,0);
$b=bcmod($a,$b);
$a=$t;
$t=$x; $x=bcsub($lx,bcmod(bcmul($q,$x),$n)); $lx=$t;
$t=$y; $y=bcsub($ly,bcmod(bcmul($q,$y),$n)); $ly=$t;
}
if (bccomp($lx,0) == -1)
$lx=bcadd($lx,$n);
return $lx;
}
// verify
$n="2447995268898324993537772139997802321";
$t="64941057316178801556773346239351236811";
$m="123456789";
$i=invmod($t,$n);
// (t*m)*inv(t) is m
echo bcmod(bcmul(bcmod(bcmul($t,$m),$n),$i),$n) == $m;
Decimal to binary conversion, using BC Math.
Note: this function is VERY slow if the decimal number is too big!
<?
function bc_decbin($dec_str) {
if (strlen($dec_str)>0) {
$bin_str = '';
do {
if (((int)$dec_str[strlen($dec_str)-1] % 2) === 0)
$bin_str .= '0';
else
$bin_str .= '1';
$dec_str = bcdiv($dec_str, '2');
} while ($dec_str!='0');
return strrev($bin_str);
}
else
return null;
}
?>
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Cristian
www.CodeFlower.com
