Posted by rich on 10/26/05 20:48

In article <435f8849$0$11076$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Sander Peters says...
>
>Hi,
>
>I have the following situation:
>
>$a=5.6000;
>$b=8.9000;
>$c=($a+$b);
>
>echo $c;
>
>I will get the value '14.5' back from PHP.
>Wich is logical.
>But what I want is to get the value '14.5000'.
>Is there somehow a workaround to let PHP print 4 decimals?
>
>Thanks in advance for your reaktion.
>
>Sander Peters
>The Netherlands
>
>

If you use "sprintf" you can format and run the calculation at the same time...

$c = sprintf("%0.4f", $a + $b);

You can then output the 4 decimal result with an "echo($c);" or "<?=$c?>"

Rich
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