> correct -269; that's because it's really more like
> -268.99999999999994315658 instead. Usually, the
> "sprintf", "printf", or the "POSIX::floor" and
And in this case, that means:
alester@flr4[~/play]$ more sprintf.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$a=0.57 * 100;
print sprintf("%03d %20.19f\n", $a,$a);
alester@flr4[~/play]$ perl sprintf.pl
056 56.9999999999999928946
...
In general, the chances that you've found a bug in the language or
implementation that's been around as long and is as widely used as Perl
5.6 is preeeeeeetty small.
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