moo@cow[74]~/bin>perl -le 'print eval "0E0"'
0
moo@cow[75]~/bin>perl -le 'print eval "10E0"'
10
moo@cow[76]~/bin>perl -le 'print eval "10E1"'
100
moo@cow[77]~/bin>perl -le 'print eval "10E10"'
100000000000