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From: uaa1006@dircon.co.uk (Peter Miles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Addition of floating point problem
Message-ID: <1991May07.174519.13307@dircon.co.uk>
Date: 7 May 91 17:45:19 GMT
Organization: The Direct Connection, UK
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Hi...I'm trying to write some maths scripts for perl and have 
been have a major problem. This is best summed up by the following:

$ perl -e 'print 0.5 + 0.2,"\n"'
0.6999999999999996
$

What's going on? I'm running perl verion 4.0.1.1 patchlevel 3 on
SCO UNIX 386 v 3.2.2. It's the version from comp.sources.misc.

                -- Pete
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