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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Adding bcround, bcfloor and bcceil
to BCMath
From: jordan.ledoux@gmail.com (Jordan LeDoux)
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 11:24=E2=80=AFAM Jordan LeDoux <jordan.ledoux@gmail=
.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 5:27=E2=80=AFAM Saki Takamachi <saki@sakiot.com> w=
rote:
>
>> Hi, Pierre
>>
>> In fact, I predict that many use cases will be covered by GMP.
>>
>> Still, I think that there may be cases where calculation functions like
>> mainframe BCD are required, such as when calculating money.
>>
>> I am unable to decide whether it is correct to deprecate BCMath and only
>> use GMP.
>>
>> I'd like to hear other people's opinions as well.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Saki
>>
>
> GMP cannot be used in any reasonable way to implement things like sin() o=
r
> cos(). It is *technically* possible, but not at all reasonable. Now, PHP
> doesn't natively support trig functions for anything other than normal
> floats, but things like that are exactly the extended capability that my
> PHP math library adds. This is required for most statistics, which now HA=
VE
> to be done in PHP itself since the ext-stats extension hasn't been update=
d
> since... I think 7.1?
>
> BCMath is one of the worst and slowest implementations of arbitrary
> precision decimals. It absolutely should be replaced. I have explored
> creating a new extension to do just this in fact for the express purpose =
of
> deprecating and replacing the bundled BCMath. But GMP, as it is implement=
ed
> currently, is not a replacement at all.
>
> Jordan
>
Take a look at the ext-decimal extension if you are interested in replacing
BCMath. It honestly is almost a drop-in replacement.
Jordan
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