These functions DO NOT round off your values. No arbitrary precision libraries do it this way. It stops calculating after reaching scale of decimal places, which mean that your value is cut off after scale number of digits, not rounded. To do the rounding use something like this:
<?php
function bcround($number, $scale=0) {
$fix = "5";
for ($i=0;$i<$scale;$i++) $fix="0$fix";
$number = bcadd($number, "0.$fix", $scale+1);
return bcdiv($number, "1.0", $scale);
}
?>
bcscale
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
bcscale — Set or get default scale parameter for all bc math functions
Description
bcscale
( int
$scale
) : intSets the default scale parameter for all subsequent calls to bc math functions that do not explicitly specify a scale parameter.
bcscale
( void
) : int
Gets the current scale factor.
Parameters
-
scale -
The scale factor.
Return Values
Returns the old scale when used as setter. Otherwise the current scale is returned.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 7.3.0 |
bcscale() can now be used to get the current scale
factor; when used as setter, it now returns the old scale value.
Formerly, scale was mandatory, and
bcscale() always returned TRUE.
|
Examples
Example #1 bcscale() example
<?php
// default scale : 3
bcscale(3);
echo bcdiv('105', '6.55957'); // 16.007
// this is the same without bcscale()
echo bcdiv('105', '6.55957', 3); // 16.007
?>
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User Contributed Notes 7 notes
mwgamera at gmail dot com ¶
11 years ago
sicerwork at aliyun dot com ¶
2 years ago
Executing bcsacle() will change the scale value of fpm.conf, not only the current process.
herslyadam at gmail dot com ¶
5 years ago
edited bcround function with negative number support:
<?php
function bcround($number, $scale=0) {
if($scale < 0) $scale = 0;
$sign = '';
if(bccomp('0', $number, 64) == 1) $sign = '-';
$increment = $sign . '0.' . str_repeat('0', $scale) . '5';
$number = bcadd($number, $increment, $scale+1);
return bcadd($number, '0', $scale);
}
?>
ravenswd at gmail dot com ¶
7 years ago
Simple, easy way to remove excess trailing zeros using rtrim:
<php>
// $total is the result of a bcmath calculation
if ( strpos($total, '.') !== false ):
$total = rtrim($total, '0');
$total = rtrim($total, '.');
endif;
</php>
invincible at limitedintelligence dot com ¶
13 years ago
If you don't set the default scale, be careful when you're chaining together several BC math functions - since by default, these functions will round off your values, losing accuracy very quickly:
<?php
$a = 1.234
$b = 2.345
$c = 7.890
$ab = bcmul($a,$b); // 2
$abc = bcmul($ab,$c);
echo $abc; // 15
?>
... compare with the answer you get when you use more decimal places:
<?php
$a = 1.234
$b = 2.345
$c = 7.890
bcscale(15);
$ab = bcmul($a,$b); // 2.893730
$abc = bcmul($ab,$c);
echo $abc; // 22.83152970
?>
nemesarial at gmail dot com ¶
4 years ago
To remove trailing zeros when using large bcscale number can be done by casting to float when ready to display the number.
<?php
bcscale(15);
$a=123.456;
$b=0.123;
$_ab=bcadd($a,$b);
echo $_ab;
// 123.579000000000000
$ab = (float)$_ab;
echo $ab;
// 123.579
?>
rastislav dot bostik at bwd21 dot cz ¶
7 years ago
Previously stated one liner trailing 0 removing using rtrim() works fine except following class of subcases:
<?php
echo rtrim('100.0000', '0.'); // 1 instead 100
echo rtrim('1230.00000000', '0.'); // 123 instead 1230
?>
What seems to be working to me is using regular expression replacement. Althought it`s probably not that fast as rtrim(), I hope it should be more reliable:
<?php
function removeFloatNumStringZeroTrailer($input) {
$patterns = array('/[\.][0]+$/','/([\.][0-9]*[1-9])([0]*)$/');
$replaces = array('','$1');
return preg_replace($patterns,$replaces,$input);
}
echo removeFloatNumStringZeroTrailer('100.0000'); // says 100
echo removeFloatNumStringZeroTrailer('1230.00000000'); // says 1230
?>
