shorten a long number with php

Question

how can i shorten a long number with php ? So a number like 0.3483748937847832 would become 0.34

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4371059/shorten-long-numbers-to-k-m-b — underscore, Jun 16 '13 at 03:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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Please search stackoverflow first - from PHP: show a number to 2 decimal places

return number_format((float)$number, 2, '.', '');

or

$padded = sprintf('%0.2f', $unpadded); // 520 -> 520.00

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

Community

answered Jun 16 '13 at 03:12

Sean

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 16 '13 at 03:29

0

Use round

echo round($number,2);

answered Jun 16 '13 at 03:29

Orangepill

2 Answers2