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Re: perl floating number addition

by poolpi (Hermit)
on Jul 20, 2009 at 06:57 UTC ( #781545=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to perl floating number addition

May be of interest ;)

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Math::BigFloat;


my $base = Math::BigFloat->new(q{895.3});
my $incr = Math::BigFloat->new(q{0.01});

while ( $base->bcmp(900) ) { 
    print $base->bstr(), "\n";
    $base->badd($incr);
}

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hth,
PooLpi

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