On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:09:33PM +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote: > There's no clean 3.55, there simply isn't. It's just how computers > work. The only way to do what you're asking for is to switch to a whole > different string-based representation, which is going to slow things down > very considerably.
I guess one can try to think of 355 binary which is easy enough. But since 100 is not a power of 2, you quickly run into problems. Several numbers that have a finite decimal representation are not finite in binary. In the trinary system 1/3 would be finite, but not in decimal or binary. Stig -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
