On May 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Why is the addition of the numbers -67947269.62 and 68288455.49, both with >only 2 numbers after the decimal, resulting in 341185.86999996 where there >are 8 numbers after the decimal. I would expect the number to simply be >341185.87. How can i avoid this strange behavior?
perldoc -q decimal Because although YOU store numbers in decimal, Perl does not, and numbers like .62 and .49 do not have terminating representations in binary. 0.62 in base 10 is a repeating binary number: 0.10011110101110000101000111101011100001010001111010111... So the solution for you is to truncate the number, using something like sprintf(): $result = sprintf "%.2f", $n - $m; perldoc -f sprintf -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
