Hi Peter, This is a floating point issue. It is a general computing problem and not just subject to Perl. In decimal form the result is -0.0000000000000017763568.
Generally thats usually acurate enough. Otherwise you could truncate it or round it to the nearest quadrabillionth. Cheers, Levon Barker > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: trouble with math... driving me nuts. > > > Luckily I was easily able to recreate the problem. See code below: > > print 37.75 - 33.67 - 4.08 ; > <STDIN>; > > I find these things all the time. Is there a particular module I can use > to fix these things? > > Output is > > -1.77635683940025e-015 > > Should be 0 > > Running on Win2000 / Intel P3 > > -Peter > > > ****** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ****** > NOTICE: This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may > contain legally privileged and confidential information intended > solely for > the use of the addressee. If the reader of this message is not the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, > dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this message or its > attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in > error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message from > your system. Thank you. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
