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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:46:10 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Extension: arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic in
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From: rtheunissen@php.net (Rudi Theunissen)

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Actually yes! You mentioned it to me 5 months ago in a thread on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/8fpwi4/if_php_had_a_native_decimal_type_would_you_use_it/dy6zon9/

I'll take a close look at GMPi today and compare them objectively. :)

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 7:20 AM Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:06 PM Rudi Theunissen <rtheunissen@php.net>
> wrote:
> > I've been working on adding arbitrary precision decimal support as an
> > alternative to *bcmath. *I have created an extension based on
> *mpdecimal*,
> > which is what Python 3's decimal module is also based on. I haven't
> > released or broadcast this project yet, because I wanted to discuss the
> API
> > and implementation with internals first.
> >
> Have you looked at GMPi ? https://github.com/sgolemon/gmpi
> It's a replacement for GMP (which includes floating point and an OOP
> interface).
>
> -Sara
>

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