Scott Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is the calculation errors for the floating point, so I checked the > PHP website. On that website, the function webpage, pow(). It said that > "In PHP 4.0.6 and earlier pow() always returned a float, and did not issue > warnings.". So, there was some changes to the pow() on PHP 4.0.7 and after. > Let's do the demo script. > > echo pow(0, 0.0829); > > It should return a "0" as it did in version 4.0.6 and before. But > version 4.0.7 and after, it returned a "-1.#IND". Why is that? What is the > other way around to fix the problem? Let me know!
pow() was badly broken in the 4.1.x series, particularly in the various edge conditions (like using 0 for either argument). 4.2.0 gets it right. jim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
