Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com> asked: > I have tried the following calculation with ActivePerl 5.10.0 build 1004 > under Windows XP Pro: > > print 0.79 - 0.798; > > And it gave the following result: > -0.00800000000000001 > > which is obviously wrong.
No, it isn't. Welcome to the wonderful world of machine numbers. Please read "perldoc -q number". > It doesn't matter too much the reasons, but is there a better way for > doing such math calculations in perl? If you're dealing with money, it's a common practice to work with cents and integers instead of using floating point numbers. HTH, Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
