I think that this is more noble and incomprehensible :>)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
sub exp_ {
    my $x = shift;
    my ($d, $ret, $i) = (1.0, 1);
    while ($ret - $d != $ret) {
        $d *= $x/++$i;
        $ret += $d;
    }    
    return $ret;
}
for (1..100) {
    print "exp($_) = ".exp_($_)."\n";
}
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