On 9/27/07, Brian Mathis wrote: > On 9/27/07, Andrew Louie wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've run into a strange adding problem with perl: > > > > when incrementing by 0.1 i get a strange behavior where at some > > arbitrary number, it will append 0.9999999999 to the end of the > > number. > > > > There's an excellent explanation of this (just posted today about the > recently discovered Excel 2007 bug) here: > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/26b.html >
thanks! I never really thought about this before becuase it was never a problem. anyway I was able to fix my problem with sprintf. thanks for all the informative replies. -- -Andrew Louie -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
