They do just what they say.
see:
http://php.net/bc

One drawback is that PHP can't natively handle these big numbers, so
the return values from these functions are of type string.

Jeremy

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On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Nathan Cook wrote:

> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:19:55 -0700
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> Subject: [PHP] BC Math
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> BC Math, Arbitrary Precision Numbers?
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> Can someone shed some light on these functions for me?
> Thanks.
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