On 03/14/2007 11:19 AM, louis fridkis wrote:
Why does Perl say 10.2 is 10.19999999999
Here is example code and output:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$add = 10.2;
print "$add\n";
printf "$add\n";
printf ("%40.35f\n", $add);
perl add1.pl
10.2
10.2
10.19999999999999928945726423989981413
If you have the perldoc utility installed, do this to get the
explanation of this behavior:
Start->Run-> perldoc -q "long decimals"
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