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Subject: Re: PHP 7.2 and bcmod()
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 05.12.2017 at 06:48, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:

> http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blob_plain;f=UPGRADING;hb=refs/heads/PHP-7.2
> has this to say on bcmod():
> 
>> The bcmod() function no longer truncates fractional numbers
>> to integers. As such, its behavior now follows fmod() rather than
>> the `%` operator. For example `bcmod('4', '3.5')` now returns '0.5'
>> instead of '1'.
> 
> However, I cannot reproduce this:
> 
> $ php --version
> PHP 7.2.0 (cli) (built: Nov 28 2017 20:05:12) ( NTS )
> Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
> Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies
> 
> $ php -r 'var_dump(bcmod('4', '3.5'));'
> string(1) "0"
> 
> Am I missing something?

As usual, the results depend on the scale factor (which is 0 by
default); see <https://3v4l.org/cvvoa>.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker