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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP5: bcmath
From: paj@pearfr.org (Pierre-Alain Joye)

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 07:50:45 +0100
Georg Richter <georg@php.net> 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.

+1 here.
Another good reason is to check the bug reports where "bogus->Use
bcmath" has been applied.

pierre