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Convert exponential number to decimal in php

Is there a way to convert an exponential number to a whole number in PHP using built in functions? A format function?

1.2378147769392E+14 to 123781477693917

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  • Possible duplicate of [#4461444](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4461444/convert-exponential-number-to-decimal-in-php) – drudge Feb 10 '11 at 23:48
  • What do you mean by "convert"? That are both the exact same number, so no conversion will occur in any case. – KingCrunch Feb 10 '11 at 23:48
  • what i get is a string with the exponential format, i would like the value returned to be a decimal format – DLS Feb 10 '11 at 23:49

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number_format(1.2378147769392E+14,0,'','')

However, for working with large numbers, if you want to keep precision, you should look into BCMath extension

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