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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:45:41 +0200
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To: Rudi Theunissen <rtheunissen@php.net>
Subject: Re: Extension: arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic in PHP 7
From: benjamin.morel@gmail.com (Benjamin Morel)

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Just for the record, I've written a userland arbitrary precision arithmetic l=
ibrary, that provides a BigDecimal class which should be pretty similar to w=
hat you're aiming to do:
https://github.com/brick/math

This library uses the existing GMP or BCMath extensions when available, but a=
lso works without them, using a (slower, but fully functional) pure PHP impl=
ementation.

A new PHP extension that would provide native arbitrary precision numbers wi=
th an OO API would be welcome, IMO.
Maybe brick/math can help inspire your API?

Benjamin

> Le 29 sept. 2018 =C3=A0 01:05, Rudi Theunissen <rtheunissen@php.net> a =C3=
=A9crit :
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> Hi everyone,
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> 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 AP=
I
> and implementation with internals first.
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> See: https://github.com/php-decimal/php-decimal
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> Any advice, commentary or objection is welcome. :)
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> Thank you,
> Rudi Theunissen
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