Math Help Needed

[Ralph Freshour]

I'm doing some php math and need to divide a floating point number
variable by only 4 decimal places - when I do the following:

$aspect_ratio = 942 / 760;
$new_height = $target_width * $aspect_ratio;

In PHP $aspect_ratio claculates to 1.2394736842105 but for my purposes
I need only 1.2394

How can I limit the decimals to just 4 places?

Thanks...

[Tom Thackrey]

On 14-Nov-2003, Ralph Freshour <ra***@primemail.com> wrote:

I'm doing some php math and need to divide a floating point number
variable by only 4 decimal places - when I do the following:

$aspect_ratio = 942 / 760;
$new_height = $target_width * $aspect_ratio;

In PHP $aspect_ratio claculates to 1.2394736842105 but for my purposes
I need only 1.2394

How can I limit the decimals to just 4 places?

lookup round() or number_format()

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[timmeh]

round($aspect_rating, 4)

:)

"Ralph Freshour" <ra***@primemail.com> wrote in message
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I'm doing some php math and need to divide a floating point number
variable by only 4 decimal places - when I do the following:

$aspect_ratio = 942 / 760;
$new_height = $target_width * $aspect_ratio;

In PHP $aspect_ratio claculates to 1.2394736842105 but for my purposes
I need only 1.2394

How can I limit the decimals to just 4 places?

Thanks...