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[Ron Guerin]

Had a moment of deja vu over the weekend, wondering about the prevalance
of bcmath and then remembering I'd asked that here about three years ago:

http://www.nyphp.org/list/talk-295-common-is-bcmath

Daniel Convissor wrote:
> Hey Ron:
>
>
>> I'm looking at using some code that uses the bcmath extension. How
>> likely is it that a user is going to have hosting without bcmath in
>> their PHP?
>>
>
> Crude survey via Google...
>
> phpinfo -bcmath = 4 million hits
> phpinfo +bcmath = 200 k hits

Current crude survey via Google...

About 2,630,000 results for: phpinfo googlebot -bcmath
About 1,130,000 results for: phpinfo googlebot +bcmath

I had to change the search a bit, based on:
http://blog.securitee.org/?p=18

... because today I get a paltry 7 results for "phpinfo +bcmath", the
first of which is an archive of this list, and the second a mirror of
the archive of this list.

While you can't really compare the old searches to the new ones much, I
think it's still safe to say that bcmath is not reliably available,
which is what I was and am still concerned about.  Luckily, there's
always Math_BigInteger.

- Ron

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