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>>#!/usr/bin/perl -wl
>>use Math::BigFloat;
>>$x = 37.75;
>>print $x - 33.67 - 4.08;
>>$x = Math::BigFloat->new('37.75');
>>print $x - 33.67 - 4.08;
This seems to work, although there are some odd line returns
You mean the automatic "\n" with every
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print 37.75 - 33.67 - 4.08 ;
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I find these things all the time. Is there a particular module I can use
to fix these things?
Take a look at Math::BigFloat, it's an arbitrary length float math package:
#!/usr/bin/perl -wl
use Math::BigFloat;
$x = 37.75;
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 -0.0017763568.
Generally thats usually acurate enough. Otherwise you could truncate it or
round it to the nearest quadrabillionth.
Cheers,
Levon Bar
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> Luckily I was easily able to recreate the problem. See code below:
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> print 37.75 - 33.67 - 4.08 ;
> ;
>
> I find these things all the time. Is there a particular
> module I can use
> to fix these things?
>
> Output is
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> -1.77635683940025e-015
>
