exp

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

expCalculates the exponent of e

Description

float exp ( float $arg )

Returns e raised to the power of arg.

Note:

'e' is the base of the natural system of logarithms, or approximately 2.718282.

Parameters

arg

The argument to process

Return Values

'e' raised to the power of arg

Examples

Example #1 exp() example

<?php
echo exp(12) . "\n";
echo 
exp(5.7);
?>

The above example will output:

1.6275E+005
298.87

See Also

  • log() - Natural logarithm
  • pow() - Exponential expression

Коментарии

Note regarding the mathematical function exp(x):

To continue accuracy of the exponential function to an infinite amount of decimal places, one would use the power series definition for exp(x).
(in LaTeX form:)
e^x = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^n}{n!}

So, to do that in PHP (using BC math):

<?php
// arbitrary precision function (x^n)/(n)!
function bcpowfact($x$n) {
  if (
bccomp($n'0') == 0) return '1.0';
  if (
bccomp($n'1') == 1) return $x;
 
$a $x// nth step: a *= x / 1
 
$i $n;
  while (
bccomp($i'1') == 1) {
   
// ith step: a *= x / i
   
$a bcmul($abcdiv($x$i));
   
$i bcsub($i'1'); // bc idiom for $i--
 
}
  return 
$a;
}

// arbitrary precision exp() function
function bcexp($x$decimal_places) {
 
$sum $prev_sum '0.0';
 
$error bcdiv(bcpow('10''-'.$decimal_places), 10); // 0.1*10^-k
 
$n '0';
  do {
   
$prev_sum $sum;
   
$sum bcadd($sumbcpowfact($x$n));
  }
  while (
bccomp(bcsub($sum$prev_sum), $error) == 1);
  return 
$sum;
}
?>
2006-04-26 13:18:14
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.exp.html
Автор:
working version (checked) of below code is 

<?php
 
// see bccomp for this code (signed and unsigned zero!)
 
function bccomp_zero($amount) {
    return 
bccomp($amount, (@$amount{0}=="-"?'-':'').'0.0');
  }

 
// arbitrary precision function (x^n)/(n)!
 
function bcpowfact($x$n) {
    if (
bccomp_zero($n) == 0) return '1';
    if (
bccomp($n'1') == 0) return $x;
   
$a $x// 1st step: a *= x / 1
   
$i $n;
    while (
bccomp($i'1') == 1) {
     
// ith step: a *= x / i
     
$a bcmul($abcdiv($x$i));
     
$i bcsub($i'1'); // bc idiom for $i--
   
}
    return 
$a;
  }

 
// arbitrary precision exp() function
 
function bcexp($x$digits) {
   
$sum $prev_sum '0.0';
   
$error '0.'.str_repeat('0'$digits-1).'1'// 0.1*10^-k
   
$n '0.0';
    do {
     
$prev_sum $sum;
     
$sum bcadd($sumbcpowfact($x$n));
     
$n bcadd($n'1'); // bc idiom for $n++
   
} while (bccomp(bcsub($sum$prev_sum), $error) == 1);
    return 
$sum;
  }
?>
2007-01-24 17:13:12
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.exp.html
Автор:
Just a note about using the submitted codes below..
Their functions have an optional $precision parameter; however, it's not being used properly..

BCMath functions by default do not use decimal precision unless specified by BCScale($precision); or using the extra parameter in the used BC functions.

For example, a blank PHP file with their code.. executing BCExp('5.7'); returns "47" instead of the correct answer of "298.86740096706..."

So for optimum accuracy, I'd suggest setting BCScale to a healthy length before running their codes.
2009-09-23 20:54:20
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.exp.html
PHP does not have the following math function in any extensions:

frexp() - Extract Mantissa and Exponent of the Floating-Point Value

I've digged many C source codes, and found the simplest implementation as follows:

<?php

function frexp $float ) {

 
$exponent = ( floor(log($float2)) + );
 
$mantissa = ( $float pow(2, -$exponent) );

  return(
    array(
$mantissa$exponent)
  );

}

print_r(frexp(0.0345));
print_r(frexp(21.539));

?>

Array
(
    [0] => 0.552
    [1] => -4
)
Array
(
    [0] => 0.67309375
    [1] => 5
)

I have compared the results using a lot of floats against C's frexp function - they are the same.

Note that C and PHP uses different float precisions, for example "4619.3" gives:

C: 0.56387939453125, 13
PHP: 0.563879394531, 13

/Assuming default configurations./
2010-12-14 09:12:58
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