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Re: Re: Re: Re: Filthy Floatsby nardo (Friar) |
| on Jul 16, 2001 at 23:34 UTC ( [id://97151]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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I am finding it hard to believe that Perl can't represent 0.98
printf("%.25f\n", 0.98); It's not perl, it's the underlying floating points which can not precisely represent 0.98, this is due to floating point numbers being base 2 and having a finite size.
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