[[Bash command line prompt]] uname -s -r -v -m -o CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.14(0.260/5/3) 2012-04-25 09:41 i686 Cygwin [[Bash command line prompt]] perl -v | grep 'This is perl' This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-cygwin-thread-multi-64int [[Bash command line prompt]] cat calc.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Math::BigFloat ':constant'; print "150 / 0.75 == ", 150 / 0.75, "\n"; print "(int(150.5)) / 0.75 == ", (int(150.5)) / 0.75, "\n"; print "150 / 3.75 == ", 150 / 3.75, "\n"; print "(int(150.5)) / 3.75 == ", (int(150.5)) / 3.75, "\n"; [[Bash command line prompt]] ./calc.pl 150 / 0.75 == 200 (int(150.5)) / 0.75 == inf 150 / 3.75 == 40 (int(150.5)) / 3.75 == NaN