[PHP-NOTES] note 130612 added to class.divisionbyzeroerror

[email protected] ("[email protected]") Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:05:21 +0000
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Subject: Avoiding the exception while maintaining IEEE 754 behavior

If you want to avoid throwing a DivisionByZeroError exception and instead get INF, -INF, or NAN (following IEEE 754 standards, similar to how JavaScript or C++ behave), use the fdiv() function instead of the / operator
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