From: Brandon Allbery
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2017 4:15 AM
To: sisyph...@optusnet.com.au
Cc: Carl Mäsak via RT
Subject: Re: [perl #132268] Floating point anomalies
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:31 AM, <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
Perl6's printf() function looks a little suspect - th
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 4:59 AM, wrote:
> It's bad enough that perl5 and perl6 round to 15 decimal digits of
> precision, but at least perl5's printf will give me 17 decimal digits when
> I ask it to (and I think perl6 should do the same):
>
I am wondering if youve
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 4:59 AM, wrote:
> It's bad enough that perl5 and perl6 round to 15 decimal digits of
> precision, but at least perl5's printf will give me 17 decimal digits when
> I ask it to (and I think perl6 should do the same):
>
I am wondering if youve
From: Brandon Allbery
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2017 4:15 AM
To: sisyph...@optusnet.com.au
Cc: Carl Mäsak via RT
Subject: Re: [perl #132268] Floating point anomalies
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:31 AM, <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
Perl6's printf() function looks a little suspect - th
-Original Message-
From: Zoffix Znet via RT
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 11:09 PM
To: sisyph...@optusnet.com.au
Subject: [perl #132268] Floating point anomalies
> What you describe looks to be similar to the other issue I have in my
> private bug stash:
>
>say .1e0 + .2e0 ==
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:31 AM, wrote:
> Perl6's printf() function looks a little suspect - though I might be
> missing
> something here.
>
> As with perl5's say function, doubles are rounded to 14 decimal digits of
> precision, so we get:
>
> $ perl6 -e 'say
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:31 AM, wrote:
> Perl6's printf() function looks a little suspect - though I might be
> missing
> something here.
>
> As with perl5's say function, doubles are rounded to 14 decimal digits of
> precision, so we get:
>
> $ perl6 -e 'say
-Original Message-
From: Zoffix Znet via RT
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 11:09 PM
To: sisyph...@optusnet.com.au
Subject: [perl #132268] Floating point anomalies
What you describe looks to be similar to the other issue I have in my
private bug stash:
say .1e0 + .2e0 ==