Examples

Example #1 Factorial function using GMP

<?php
function fact($x)
{
$return = 1;
for (
$i=2; $i <= $x; $i++) {
$return = gmp_mul($return, $i);
}
return
$return;
}

echo
gmp_strval(fact(1000)) . "\n";
?>

This will calculate factorial of 1000 (pretty big number) very fast.