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Re: floating point addition

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Jan 12, 2015 at 16:19 UTC ( [id://1112959]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to floating point addition

May be this will give you a clue:

[0] Perl> printf "%20.17f\n", 20.1;;
20.10000000000000100

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Then read:Re: Re: Re: Bug? 1+1 != 2.

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Re^2: floating point addition
by kresike (Initiate) on Jan 12, 2015 at 16:40 UTC
    Yeah, it never occurred to me to check that. Thanks.
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