I am using ActiveState Perl and I am getting interesting results with I use
the int() function. Essentially, I get different results as in the
following. Is this normal for Perl?

 I have narrowed my code to the following simple scenario:

   my $a = 31.0;
   my $b = 1.8;
   my $c = 2.9;

   my $sumy = $a + $b + $c;             # $sumy = 35.7

   my $yten = $sumy * 10;
   my $ytenint = int($sumy*10);

   print "x = " . $yten . " \n";        # output> 357
   print "xint = " . $ytenint . " \n";  # output> 356


The output is:

x = 357
xint = 356

There is some rounding going on which is not intuitive. I am a C/C++
programmer and am surprised at the output. What should I be using?

- Tosh

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