here is an algorithm to calculate gcd of a number. This is Euclid algorithm i was studying in Maths. I've converted it in php for the fun.
<?php
if($a && $b)
{ $ax=$a; $bx=$b;
$r=fmod($a,$b);
if(!$r){$rx=$r;}
while($r){
$rx=$r;
$a=$b;
$b=$r;
$r=fmod($a,$b);
}
}
echo 'PGCD ('.$ax.' , '.$bx.' ) = '.$rx;
?>
Wouldn't the following function do the same but a lot easier than the one in the comment before?
function trimInteger($targetNumber,$newLength) {
return $targetNumber%pow(10,$newLength);
}
I think, this is the optimal code for calculating factorials:
<?php
function fact($int){
if($int<2)return 1;
for($f=2;$int-1>1;$f*=$int--);
return $f;
};
?>
And another one for calculating the $int-th Fibonacci-number:
<?php
function fib($int){
static $fibTable=array();
return empty($fibTable[$int])?$fibTable[$int] = $int>1?fib($int-2)+fib($int-1):1:$fibTable[$int];
};
?>
Occasionally a user must enter a number in a form. This function converts fractions to decimals and leaves decimals untouched. Of course, you may wish to round the final output, but that is not included here.
<?php
/*Some example values of $q
$q = "2.5";
$q = "2 1/2";
$q = "5/2";
*/
function Deci_Con($q){
//check for a space, signifying a whole number with a fraction
if(strstr($q, ' ')){
$wa = strrev($q);
$wb = strrev(strstr($wa, ' '));
$whole = true;//this is a whole number
}
//now check the fraction part
if(strstr($q, '/')){
if($whole==true){//if whole number, then remove the whole number and space from the calculations
$q = strstr($q, ' ');
}
$b = str_replace("/","",strstr($q, '/'));//this is the divisor
//isolate the numerator
$c = strrev($q);
$d = strstr($c, '/');
$e = strrev($d);
$a = str_replace("/","",$e);//the pre-final numerator
if($whole==true){//add the whole number to the calculations
$a = $a+($wb*$b);//new numerator is whole number multiplied by denominator plus original numerator
}
$q = $a/$b;//this is now your decimal
return $q;
}else{
return $q;//not a fraction, just return the decimal
}
}?>
Here is how to calculate standard deviation in PHP where $samples is an array of incrementing numeric keys and the values are your samples:
$sample_count = count($samples);
for ($current_sample = 0; $sample_count > $current_sample; ++$current_sample) $sample_square[$current_sample] = pow($samples[$current_sample], 2);
$standard_deviation = sqrt(array_sum($sample_square) / $sample_count - pow((array_sum($samples) / $sample_count), 2));
well just a note.. maybe i'm a bit stupid.. but remember to use pow() rather than the "^" sign for exponents.. as it took me 5 minutes to figure out why it wasn't working.
while joogat's one line function is short, it is probably better to calculate factorial iteratively instead of recursively. keep in mind if you want large factorials, you'll need to use some sort of arbitrary precision integer or perhaps the BCMath functions. then again, unless you're trying to do large numbers (170! is the highest that you can do that does not return infinity) you probably won't notice any time difference.
<?php
function factorial($in) {
// 0! = 1! = 1
$out = 1;
// Only if $in is >= 2
for ($i = 2; $i <= $in; $i++) {
$out *= $i;
}
return $out;
}
?>
I was looking for a truncate function. Not finding one, I wrote my own. Since it deals with everything as a number, I imagine it's faster than the alternative of using string functions. HTH...
<?php
function truncate ($num, $digits = 0) {
//provide the real number, and the number of
//digits right of the decimal you want to keep.
$shift = pow(10, $digits);
return ((floor($num * $shift)) / $shift);
}
?>
thearbitcouncil at gmail dot com, you could just use array_sum():
<?php
function average($arr)
{
if (!is_array($arr)) return false;
return array_sum($arr)/count($arr);
}
$array = array(5, 10, 15);
echo average($array); // 10
?>
I needed a truncate function to operate on real numbers. I preferred not to use a string-manipulation method, so here's my solution. HTH...
function truncate ($num, $digits = 0) {
//provide the real number, and the number of
//digits right of the decimal you want to keep.
$shift = pow(10 , $digits);
return ((floor($num * $shift)) / $shift);
}
Lowest Common Denominator:
function lcd($num, $start) {
while($num % $start != 0) {
$start++;
}
return $start;
}
Another ordinal method, which does not involve utilizing date functions:
<?php
sprintf( "%d%s", $t, array_pop( array_slice( array_merge( array( "th","st","nd","rd"), array_fill( 4,6,"th")), $t%10, 1)));'
?>
//had a mistake in last post, heres the corrected version
/*
Just a simple function to trim digits from the left side of an integer. TRIM DOWN TO 4-> (ie. 987654 => 7654)
*/
function trimInteger($targetNumber,$newLength) {
$digits = pow(10,$newLength);
$s = ($targetNumber/ $digits); //make the last X digits the decimal part
$t = floor($targetNumber / $digits); //drop the last X digits (the decimal part)
$h = $s - $t; //remove all but the decimal part
$newInteger = ($h*$digits); //make the everything after the decimal point the new number
return $newInteger;
}
@ Moikboy:
This may or may not be more simplified factorialization:
<?php
$f=$fact=25;
while ($fact>0)
{$f=$f*$fact--;}
echo $f;
?>
A function that simulates the sum operator. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum). Be careful with the expression because it may cause a security hole; note the single quotes to don't parse the "$".
<?php
# @param string $expr expression to evaluate (for example (2*$x)^2+1)
# @param string $var dummy variable (for example "x")
# @param integer $start
# @param integer $end
# @param integer $step
function sum($expr,$var,$start,$end,$step = 1) {
$expr = str_replace(';','',$expr);
$var = str_replace('$','',$var);
$start = (int)$start; $end = (int)$end; $step = (int)$step; $sum = 0;
for ($i = $start; $i <= $end; $i = $i + $step) {
$_expr = str_replace('$'.$var,$i,$expr);
$_eval = '$_result = '.$_expr.'; return $_result;';
$_result = eval($_eval);
if($result === FALSE) return "SYNTAX ERROR : $expr";
$sum += $_result;
}
return (int)$sum;
}
?>
I needed to approximate an integral because i was not able to calculate it, so i wrote this function. It approximates an integral with the composite Simpson's rule.
More information on Simpson's rule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_rule
<?php
function simpsonf($x){
// returns f(x) for integral approximation with composite Simpson's rule
return(pow((1+pow($x, (-4))), 0.5));
}
function simpsonsrule($a, $b, $n){
// approximates integral_a_b f(x) dx with composite Simpson's rule with $n intervals
// $n has to be an even number
// f(x) is defined in "function simpsonf($x)"
if($n%2==0){
$h=($b-$a)/$n;
$S=simpsonf($a)+simpsonf($b);
$i=1;
while($i <= ($n-1)){
$xi=$a+$h*$i;
if($i%2==0){
$S=$S+2*simpsonf($xi);
}
else{
$S=$S+4*simpsonf($xi);
}
$i++;
}
return($h/3*$S);
}
else{
return('$n has to be an even number');
}
}
?>
If you're an aviator and needs to calculate windcorrection angles and groundspeed (e.g. during flightplanning) this can be very useful.
$windcorrection = rad2deg(asin((($windspeed * (sin(deg2rad($tt - ($winddirection-180))))/$tas))));
$groundspeed = $tas*cos(deg2rad($windcorrection)) + $windspeed*cos(deg2rad($tt-($winddirection-180)));
You can probably write these lines more beautiful, but they work!
For all you guys writing mortgage calculators out there:
<?php
function payment($apr,$n,$pv,$fv=0.0,$prec=2){
/* Calculates the monthly payment rouned to the nearest penny
** $apr = the annual percentage rate of the loan.
** $n = number of monthly payments (360 for a 30year loan)
** $pv = present value or principal of the loan
** $fv = future value of the loan
** $prec = the precision you wish rounded to
*/
/****************************************\
** No Warranty is expressed or implied. **
*****************************************/
if ($apr !=0) {
$alpha = 1/(1+$apr/12);
$retval = round($pv * (1 - $alpha) / $alpha /
(1 - pow($alpha,$n)),$prec) ;
} else {
$retval = round($pv / $n, $prec);
}
return($retval);
}
?>
Method to convert an arbitrary decimal number to its most reduced fraction form (so a string is returned, this method would probably be used for output formatting purposes.) There were other methods similar to this one on the page, but none did quite what I wanted. It's maybe not the most elegant code, but it gets the job done. Hope this helps someone. An iterative form of Euclid's algorithm is used to find the GCD.
<?php
function dec2frac( $decimal )
{
$decimal = (string)$decimal;
$num = '';
$den = 1;
$dec = false;
// find least reduced fractional form of number
for( $i = 0, $ix = strlen( $decimal ); $i < $ix; $i++ )
{
// build the denominator as we 'shift' the decimal to the right
if( $dec ) $den *= 10;
// find the decimal place/ build the numberator
if( $decimal{$i} == '.' ) $dec = true;
else $num .= $decimal{$i};
}
$num = (int)$num;
// whole number, just return it
if( $den == 1 ) return $num;
$num2 = $num;
$den2 = $den;
$rem = 1;
// Euclid's Algorithm (to find the gcd)
while( $num2 % $den2 ) {
$rem = $num2 % $den2;
$num2 = $den2;
$den2 = $rem;
}
if( $den2 != $den ) $rem = $den2;
// now $rem holds the gcd of the numerator and denominator of our fraction
return ($num / $rem ) . "/" . ($den / $rem);
}
?>
Examples:
echo dec2frac( 10 );
echo dec2frac( .5 );
echo dec2frac( 5.25 );
echo dec2frac( .333333333 );
yields:
10
1/2
21/4
333333333/1000000000
This code will convert a decimal to it's fraction equivalent. The precision can be set by changing PRECISION.
<?php
define(PRECISION, .01);
$count=0;
$result=array();
decimalToFraction($_REQUEST['dec'],$count,&$result);
$count = count($result);
$simp_fract = simplifyFraction($result,$count,1,$result[$count]);
echo $simpl_fract;
// Start of functions
/*
Converts a decimal to unsimplified fraction represented in an array
*/
function decimalToFraction($decimal,$count,$result) {
$a = (1/$decimal);
$b = ( $a - floor($a) );
$count++;
if ($b > .01 && $count <= 5) decimalToFraction($b,$count,&$result);
$result[$count] = floor($a);
}
/*
Simplifies a fraction in an array form that is returned from
decimalToFraction
*/
function simplifyFraction($fraction,$count,$top,$bottom) {
$next = $fraction[$count-1];
$a = ($bottom * $next) + $top;
$top = $bottom;
$bottom = $a;
$count--;
if ($count > 0) simplifyFraction($fraction,$count,$top,$bottom);
else {
return "<font size=1>$bottom/$top</font>";
}
}
?>
And the reason I needed a Factorial function is because I there were no nPr or nCr functions native to PHP, either.
function n_pick_r($n,$r){$n=(int)$n; $r=(int)$r;return (fact($n)/fact($n-$r));}
function n_choose_r($n,$r){$n=(int)$n; $r=(int)$r;return (n_pick_r($n,$r)/fact($r));}
Hope that helps someone!
If you need to deal with polar co-ordinates for somereason you will need to convert to and from x,y for input and output in most situations: here are some functions to convert cartesian to polar and polar to cartesian
<?
//returns array of r, theta in the range of 0-2*pi (in radians)
function rect2polar($x,$y)
{
if(is_numeric($x)&&is_numeric($y))
{
$r=sqrt(pow($x,2)+pow($y,2));
if($x==0)
{
if($y>0) $theta=pi()/2;
else $theta=3*pi()/2;
}
else if($x<0) $theta=atan($y/$x)+pi();
else if($y<0) $theta=atan($y/$x)+2*pi();
else $theta=atan($y/$x);
$polar=array("r"=>$r,"theta"=>$theta);
return $polar;
}
else return false;
}
//r must be in radians, returns array of x,y
function polar2rect($r,$theta)
{
if(is_numeric($r)&&is_numeric($theta))
{
$x=$r*cos($theta);
$y=$r*sin($theta);
$rect=array("x"=>$x,"y"=>$y);
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
?>
Here are are a nPr and a nPc function
(had to define NaN - don't know, how to this the "rigth" way)
<?php
define (NaN,acos(1.01));
function nCr($n,$r){
if ($r > $n)
return NaN;
if (($n-$r) < $r)
return nCr($n,($n-$r));
$return = 1;
for ($i=0;$i < $r;$i++){
$return *= ($n-$i)/($i+1);
}
return $return;
}
function nPr($n,$r){
if ($r > $n)
return NaN;
if ($r)
return $n*(nPr($n-1,$r-1));
else
return 1;
}
?>
Here's a least common denominator (lcd) function:
$array = array(3,4,6,8,18,2);
function lcd($array,$x) {
$mod_sum = 0;
for($int=1;$int < count($array);$int++) {
$modulus[$int] = ($array[0]*$x) % ($array[$int]);
$mod_sum = $mod_sum + $modulus[$int];
}
if (!$mod_sum) {
echo "LCD: ".($array[0]*$x)."\n";
}
else {
lcd($array,$x+1);
}
}
lcd($array,1);
This is an efficient method of calculating the binomial coefficient C(n,k). This code was derived from Owant: Mastering Algorithms with Perl.
<?php
// calculate binomial coefficient
function binomial_coeff($n, $k) {
$j = $res = 1;
if($k < 0 || $k > $n)
return 0;
if(($n - $k) < $k)
$k = $n - $k;
while($j <= $k) {
$res *= $n--;
$res /= $j++;
}
return $res;
}
?>
If you compiled php with --enable-bcmath, you can get full integer values of extremely large numbers by replacing:
$res *= $n--;
$res /= $j++;
with:
$res = bcmul($res, $n--);
$res = bcdiv($res, $j++);
Another simpler function to check a number with the luhn algorithm :
<?php
function luhn($num){
if(!$num)
return false;
$num = array_reverse(str_split($num));
$add = 0;
foreach($num as $k => $v){
if($k%2)
$v = $v*2;
$add += ($v >= 10 ? $v - 9 : $v);
}
return ($add%10 == 0);
}
?>
Don't know if foreach and arrays operations are faster than while and substr, but I feel it clearer.
Two functions I didn't find elsewhere... one to compute mean of an array of numbers, and another to computer variance of a sample of numbers. Both take an array of numbers as arguments. Not much error checking, or optimization...
(note: variance function uses the average function...)
<?php
function average($arr)
{
if (!count($arr)) return 0;
$sum = 0;
for ($i = 0; $i < count($arr); $i++)
{
$sum += $arr[$i];
}
return $sum / count($arr);
}
function variance($arr)
{
if (!count($arr)) return 0;
$mean = average($arr);
$sos = 0; // Sum of squares
for ($i = 0; $i < count($arr); $i++)
{
$sos += ($arr[$i] - $mean) * ($arr[$i] - $mean);
}
return $sos / (count($arr)-1); // denominator = n-1; i.e. estimating based on sample
// n-1 is also what MS Excel takes by default in the
// VAR function
}
echo variance(array(4,6,23,15,18)); // echoes 64.7...correct value :)
?>
Here's a simple way way to convert a number to an ordinal number I created:
$i == the number to convert. Put this inside a for loop if you need to populate an array.
<?php
// change increment variable to ordinal number.
$n1 = $i % 100; //first remove all but the last two digits
$n2 = ($n1 < 20 ? $1 : $i % 10; //remove all but last digit unless the number is in the teens, which all should be 'th'
//$n is now used to determine the suffix.
$ord = ($n2==1 ? $i.'st' : ( ($n2==2 ? $i.'nd' : ($n2==3 ? $i.'rd' : $i.'th') ) ) )
?>
Tim's fix of Evan's ordinal function causes another problem, it no longer works for number above 100. (E.g. it returns 111st instead of 111th).
Here is a further modified version which should work for all numbers.
<?PHP
function ordinal($cardinal) {
$cardinal = (int)$cardinal;
$digit = substr($cardinal, -1, 1);
if ($cardinal <100) $tens = round($cardinal/10);
else $tens = substr($cardinal, -2, 1);
if($tens == 1) {
return $cardinal.'th';
}
switch($digit) {
case 1:
return $cardinal.'st';
case 2:
return $cardinal.'nd';
case 3:
return $cardinal.'rd';
default:
return $cardinal.'th';
}
}
?>
I could not resist to do a simpler version of the ordinal function:
<?php
function ordinal($num)
{
$num = (int)$num;
$digit = substr($num, -1, 1);
$ord = "th";
switch($digit)
{
case 1: $ord = "st"; break;
case 2: $ord = "nd"; break;
case 3: $ord = "rd"; break;
break;
}
return $num.$ord;
}
?>
One could replace the typecast with
<?php
if($num===NULL or $num==="")
{return NULL;}
?>
to get an empty result instead of "0th" in case $num is empty too.
For people interest in Differential Equations, I've done a function that receive a string like: x^2+x^3 and put it in
2x+3x^2 witch is the differantial of the previous equation.
In the code there is one thing missing: the $string{$i} is often going outOfBound (Uninitialized string offset: 6 in...)
if your error setting is set a little too high... I just dont know how to fix this.
So there is the code for differential equation with (+ and -) only:
<?
function differentiel($equa)
{
$equa = strtolower($equa);
echo "Equation de depart: ".$equa."<br>";
$final = "";
for($i = 0; $i < strlen($equa); $i++)
{
//Make a new string from the receive $equa
if($equa{$i} == "x" && $equa{$i+1} == "^")
{
$final .= $equa{$i+2};
$final .= "x^";
$final .= $equa{$i+2}-1;
}
elseif($equa{$i} == "+" || $equa{$i} == "-")
{
$final .= $equa{$i};
}
elseif(is_numeric($equa{$i}) && $i == 0)
{
//gerer parenthese et autre terme generaux + gerer ^apres: 2^2
$final .= $equa{$i}."*";
}
elseif(is_numeric($equa{$i}) && $i > 0 && $equa{$i-1} != "^")
{
//gerer ^apres: 2^2
$final .= $equa{$i}."*";
}
elseif($equa{$i} == "^")
{
continue;
}
elseif(is_numeric($equa{$i}) && $equa{$i-1} == "^")
{
continue;
}
else
{
if($equa{$i} == "x")
{
$final .= 1;
}
else
{
$final .= $equa{$i};
}
}
}
//
//Manage multiplication add in the previous string $final
//
$finalMul = "";
for($i = 0; $i < strlen($final); $i++)
{
if(is_numeric($final{$i}) && $final{$i+1} == "*" && is_numeric($final{$i+2}))
{
$finalMul .= $final{$i}*$final{$i+2};
}
elseif($final{$i} == "*")
{
continue;
}
elseif(is_numeric($final{$i}) && $final{$i+1} != "*" && $final{$i-1} == "*")
{
continue;
}
else
{
$finalMul .= $final{$i};
}
}
echo "equa final: ".$finalMul;
}
?>
I know this is not optimal but i've done this quick :)
If you guys have any comment just email me.
I also want to do this fonction In C to add to phpCore maybe soon...
Patoff
I see there are some factorial functions below.
I'll provide the best one:
<?
function factorial($n){ $n=(int)$n;
$f=1;
for(;$n>0;--$n) $f*=$n;
return $f;
}
?>
Please note that shorter is not always better
(meaning that really short faculty implementation above).
In my opinion, a clearer way to code this is, including a check
for negative or non-integer values.
In order to calculate the faculty of a positive integer,
an iterative way (which might be harder to understand)
is usually a bit faster, but I am using it only for small
values so it is not really important to me:
<?php
// Calculate the Faculty of a positive int-value
function iFaculty($a_iFac)
{
if ($a_iFac > 0)
{
return $a_iFac * $this->iFaculty($a_iFac - 1);
}
elseif ($a_iFac == 0)
{
return 1;
}
else
{
return 0; // Wrong argument!
}
}
?>
I've also written another function to calculate the
binomial coefficient of 2 values, I didn't find it anywhere yet so I hope it might help someone (works fine with the above stated faculty-function and ready to be used inside of your own classes!)
<?php
// calculates the binomial coefficient "n over k" of 2 positive int values
// for n >= k
function iBinCoeff($a_iN, $a_iK)
{
// the binomial coefficient is defined as n! / [ (n-k)! * k! ]
return $this->iFaculty($a_iN) / ($this->iFaculty($a_iN - $a_iK) * $this->iFaculty($a_iK));
}
?>
Here's yet another greatest common denominator (gcd) function, a reeeeally small one.
function gcd($n,$m){
if(!$m)return$n;return gcd($m,$n%$m);
}
It works by recursion. Not really sure about it's speed, but it's really small! This won't work on floating point numbers accurately though. If you want a floating point one, you need to have at least PHP 4, and the code would be
function gcd($n,$m){
if(!$m)return$n;return gcd($m,fmod($n,$m));
}
Here is a cleaner factorial function:
function factorial($s){
if($s) $r = $s * factorial($s - 1);
else $r = 1;
return $r;
}
Theres another faster way of doing even/odd number checking by using bitwise operators. Don't ask me how it works, I just found this out by experimenting with it (could the editor possibly explain?)
if ((1&$num)) {
echo "$num is odd";
}
if (!(1&$num)) {
echo "$num is even";
}
How it works is (1&$num) returns a 1 for odd numbers and returns 0 when it's an even number.
for those looking for a credit card verification function i wrote a simple LUHN Formula algorithm:
<?php
$valid = 1;
$numOfDigits = 0 - strlen($ccNumber);
$i = -1;
while ($i>=$numOfDigits){
if (($i % 2) == 0){
$double = 2*(substr($ccNumber, $i, 1));
$total += substr($double,0,1);
if (strlen($double > 1)){
$total += substr($double,1,1);
}
} else {
$total += substr($ccNumber, $i, 1);
}
$i--;
}
if (($total % 10) != 0){
$valid = 0;
}
?>
To add to what Cornelius had, I have written a function that will take an array of numbers and return the least common multiple of them:
function lcm_arr($items){
//Input: An Array of numbers
//Output: The LCM of the numbers
while(2 <= count($items)){
array_push($items, lcm(array_shift($items), array_shift($items)));
}
return reset($items);
}
//His Code below with $'s added for vars
function gcd($n, $m) {
$n=abs($n); $m=abs($m);
if ($n==0 and $m==0)
return 1; //avoid infinite recursion
if ($n==$m and $n>=1)
return $n;
return $m<$n?gcd($n-$m,$n):gcd($n,$m-$n);
}
function lcm($n, $m) {
return $m * ($n/gcd($n,$m));
}
to "convert" scientific notation to a float simply cast it:
<?php
$val = '3.5e4';
$val = (float) $val;
echo $val;
?>
output:
35000
<?php
function lcd($n,$m, $maxvarianzpercent=0){
// set $maxvarianzpercent=5 to get a small, but approx. result
/* a better lcd function with varianz:
for example use
lcd(141,180,5) to get the approx. lcd '7/9' which is in fact 140/180
*/
// ATTENTION!!! can be really slow if $m is >1000
$d=$n/$m;
$f=1;
while($d*$f!=intval($d*$f)){
$f++;
}
$r=($d*$f).'/'.$f;
if(($d*$f)<=10 or $f<=10) return $r;
else if($maxvarianzpercent>0){
$f=1;
while($d*$f!=intval($d*$f) and ($d*$f)-intval($d*$f) > $maxvarianzpercent/100){
$f++;
}
return intval($d*$f).'/'.$f;
} else return $r;
}
?>
In Evan's ordinal function, the line:
<?php
$tens = substr($cardinal, -2, 1);
?>
needs to be replaced by:
<?php
$tens = round($cardinal/10);
?>
or similar. At least on PHP 4.3.10, substr("1", -2, 1) returns '1' - so Evan's function gives "1th", as well as "11th". This is contrary to the documentation, but is noted in the comments on the substr manual page.
<?
/**
* Function to calculate base36 values from a number. Very
* useful if you wish to generate IDs from numbers.
*
* @param $value The number
* @param $base The base to be applied (16, 36 or 64)
* @return The calculated string
* @author Shashank Tripathi (shanx@shanx.com)
* @version 0.1 - Let me know if something doesnt work
*
*/
function base36($value, $base)
{
$baseChars = array('0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5',
'6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'b',
'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h',
'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n',
'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't',
'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'
);
$remainder = 0;
$newval = "";
while ( $value > 0 )
{
$remainder = $value % $base;
$value = ( ($value - $remainder)/ $base );
$newval .= $baseChars[$remainder];
}
return strrev($newval);
}
echo "The string for 46655, for instance, is " . base36(46655, 36);
?>
I found it kind of irritating that PHP had no native functionality for a calculating Factorials. Since I really didn't feel like loading the GMP library, I figured I'd write my own function.
function fact($s){$r=(int)$s; for ($i=$r;$i--;$i>1){$r=$r*$i;} return $r;}
I think that's right... I havn't tested it extensively but it should work.
A slightly more complex but much more accurate cardinal=>ordinal function (the one below doesn't account for 11th, 12th, and 13th, which don't follow the usual rules):
<?php
function ordinal($cardinal)
{
$cardinal = (int)$cardinal;
$digit = substr($cardinal, -1, 1);
$tens = substr($cardinal, -2, 1);
if($tens == 1)
{
return $cardinal.'th';
}
switch($digit)
{
case 1:
return $cardinal.'st';
case 2:
return $cardinal.'nd';
case 3:
return $cardinal.'rd';
default:
return $cardinal.'th';
}
}
?>
If you're really concerned about speed, you could compute the factorial of large numbers using the Gamma function of n-1.
Integral y^(t-1)*Exp(-y) for y from 0 to Infinity
For Fibonacci numbers, there's a better-than-recursive way.
((1+sqrt(5))/2)^(n/sqrt(5)) - ((1-sqrt(5))/2)^(n/sqrt(5))
The reason the bitwise AND ("&") operator works to determine whether a number is odd or even is because odd numbers expressed in binary always have the rightmost (2^0) bit = 1 and even numbers always have the 2^0 bit = 0.
So if you do a " 1 & $num", it will return zero if the number is even (since xxxxxxx0 [the even number in binary] and 00000001 [the 1]) don't share any bits, and will return 1 if the number is odd (xxxxxx1 and 000001).
a clever way of doing things, but $num % 2 would work as well i think :).
The example for Factorials given above is wrong. Here a correct version, so that you do not have to reinvent the wheel again...
<?php
function mathFact( $s )
{
$r = (int) $s;
if ( $r < 2 )
$r = 1;
else {
for ( $i = $r-1; $i > 1; $i-- )
$r = $r * $i;
}
return( $r );
}
?>
Thanks to Chronial "at" cyberpunkuniverse.de, I was able to create the binompdf(n, p, k) function.
<?php
function nCr($n, $k){
if ($k > $n)
return NaN;
if (($n - $k) < $k)
return nCr($n, ($n - $k));
$return = 1;
for ($i=0; $i<$k; $i++){
$return *= ($n - $i) / ($i + 1);
}
return $return;
}
function binompdf($n, $p, $k){
$return = nCr($n, $k) * pow($p, $k) * pow((1 - $p), ($n - $k));
return $return;
}
?>
I found that when dealing with tables, a 'least common multiple' function is sometimes useful for abusing tablespan and the likes.
So here goes (you may choose to remove the first part of the gcd function if the function call is well-behaved):
<?php
function gcd(n, m) //greatest common divisor
{
n=abs(n); m=abs(m);
if (n==0 and m==0)
return 1; //avoid infinite recursion
if (n==m and n>=1)
return n;
return m<n?gcd(n-m,n):gcd(n,m-n);
}
function lcm(n, m) //least common multiple
{
return m*(n/gcd(n,m));
}
?>
This may or may not be something to consider adding to the mathematical function library.
