use strict; use warnings; use Test::More tests => 3; use bignum; sub xe{ $_[0]*log($_[0])+log(atan2(1,1)*8*$_[0])/2 + 1/(12*$_[0]) - 1/(360*($_[0]**3)) + 1/(1260*($_[0]**5)); } my ($m, $n, $r) = ( 2**96, 3*(10**6), 1*(10**6) ); my $e=exp(xe($m-$n)+xe($m-$r)-xe($m)-xe($m-$n-$r)); is( $e , 1, '$e should equal 1' ); is( 1-$e , 0, '1-$e should equal 0' ); is( 1-"$e" , 0, '1-"$e" should equal 0' ); #### 1..3 ok 1 - $e should equal 1 not ok 2 - 1-$e should equal 0 # Failed test (bigtest.pl at line 17) # got: '1' # expected: '0' ok 3 - 1-"$e" should equal 0 # Looks like you failed 1 test of 3.