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Bug #44995 bcpowmod() fails if scale != 0
Submitted: 2008-05-14 16:26 UTC Modified: 2017-09-06 21:27 UTC
Votes:60
Avg. Score:4.1 ± 1.0
Reproduced:18 of 36 (50.0%)
Same Version:18 (100.0%)
Same OS:18 (100.0%)
From: nat at fishtrap dot co dot uk Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: BC math related
PHP Version: 5.*, 6 (2009-09-20) OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2008-05-14 16:26 UTC] nat at fishtrap dot co dot uk
Description:
------------
When using the 4th optional parameter of bcpowmod. The answer is always zero and does not match the answer using bc directly.

This is also true if you set the scale using bcscale(1).

In short if the scale is non zero I can't find any way of getting anything apart from zero as the result.

Reproduce code:
---------------
echo bcpowmod("4", "4", "3", 1 ) ,PHP_EOL;



Expected result:
----------------
0.1

in bc
scale =1;
4^4%3;
.1

Actual result:
--------------
0.0

Patches

remove_scale_parameter_from_bcpowmod_bug44995 (last revision 2010-08-30 20:38 UTC by k.schroeder@php.net)

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 [2009-09-19 18:22 UTC] sjoerd@php.net
This seems to be a bug in the bc library. I asked jhasler to look into it.
 [2009-09-20 14:43 UTC] sjoerd@php.net
John Hasler said:

The example in #44995 is wrong.  "^" has higher precedence than "%" so
"4^4%3" means "(4^4)%3" or "256%3", not "4^(4%3).  The latter gives a
runtime error in bc with scale=1, as it should as fractional exponents
are not supported.

From number.c:

/* Raise BASE to the EXPO power, reduced modulo MOD.  The result is
  placed in RESULT.  If a EXPO is not an integer,
  only the integer part is used.  */
...
...
...
 /* Check the base for scale digits. */
 if (base->n_scale != 0)
     bc_rt_warn ("non-zero scale in base");

 /* Check the exponent for scale digits. */
 if (exponent->n_scale != 0)
   {
     bc_rt_warn ("non-zero scale in exponent");
     bc_divide (exponent, _one_, &exponent, 0); /*truncate */
   }

 /* Check the modulus for scale digits. */
 if (mod->n_scale != 0)
     bc_rt_warn ("non-zero scale in modulus");
...
...
...

As you can see, non-zero scale is not supported.  Thus the bug is in
bcpowmod().  It should not accept a scale, and the documentation should
say so.


 [2010-02-07 01:47 UTC] terrafrost at gmail dot com
Related to this...

<?php
echo bcpowmod('3234', '32345', '22345', 0) . "\r\n";
echo bcpowmod('3234', '32345', '22345', 1);
?>

That outputs the following:

17334
1140.8

It seems to me that the output of the above ought to either be this:

Warning: bcpowmod() expects at most 3 parameters, 4 given

...or this:

17334
17334.0
 [2010-08-30 22:38 UTC] k.schroeder@php.net
The following patch has been added/updated:

Patch Name: remove_scale_parameter_from_bcpowmod_bug44995
Revision:   1283200734
URL:        http://bugs.php.net/patch-display.php?bug=44995&patch=remove_scale_parameter_from_bcpowmod_bug44995&revision=1283200734
 [2017-09-06 21:27 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Summary: bcpowmod() should not have scale parameter (only 0 is supported) +Summary: bcpowmod() fails if scale != 0 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2017-09-06 21:27 UTC] cmb@php.net
> As you can see, non-zero scale is not supported. Thus the bug is
> in bcpowmod(). It should not accept a scale, and the
> documentation should say so.

The documentation for the scale parameter states:

| This optional parameter is used to set the number of digits
| after the decimal place in the result.

Although the fractional part of the operation is always zero,
it still might make sense to request a certain number of decimals.
So the behavior should be fixed to match the other BCMath
operations, instead of removing this parameter.

> Expected result:
> ----------------
> 0.1

The expected result would actually be 1.0.
 [2017-09-06 21:52 UTC] cmb@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of cmbecker69@gmx.de
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=dea41f3c3a003a22893b27eead429f963d3230c3
Log: Fixed bug #44995 (bcpowmod() fails if scale != 0)
 [2017-09-06 21:52 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Analyzed +Status: Closed
 
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