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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP5: bcmath
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

Majority of PHP application and hence users do not require this extension. 
Those who do, in most cases operate in an environment where they have full 
control over their PHP configuration and thus will be able to enable this 
extension on demand.

-1.

Ilia


On February 01, 2004 01:50 am, Georg Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after discussion with Brian Aker about problems with number precision in
> financial applications and thinking about the impact of "Enterprise" I'm
> wondering that bcmath is not enabled by default.
>
> Is there a reason for it? if not I'm strongly +1 to enable it by default.
>
> Georg