Asides from the general comment on floating-point arithmetic calculation, you should know that the international IEEE standard for rounding numbers is more complicated that what you probably expect. If you want to round a number with one decimal place to an integer, numbers whose decimal place is 5 will be rounded up or down, depending on whether the previous digit is odd or even. This is the international standard, and this is what the standard C library implements for the round function, and this is what Perl is also doing, presumably because it is based on the C library. The rational for that is that if you always round up numbers with one decimal place equal to 5, you get a bias upward in sums of large number of numbers. So that a number with one decimal place equal to 5 is sometimes rounded up and sometimes rounded down.
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