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but is there a simpler way?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6925358/sprintf-adds-minus-sign-to-zero-after-rounding/6925396 

die 0 + sprintf '%.0f', -0.5
__END__
0 at - line 1.

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Signed zero in IEEE 754, Is this odd behavior a floating point problem?

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Re^2: Rounding with sprintf and -0
by johnfl68 (Scribe) on Apr 07, 2013 at 03:03 UTC

    Hmmm - I replied to this earlier, but now it is gone?

    To Anonymous Monk - Thank you! As soon as I read add +0 it made total sense.

    John

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