Re^7: All Calculations Done with One Variable Give Integer Answers

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in thread All Calculations Done with One Variable Give Integer Answers

I am highly intrigued by this

Most likely it's standard Math::BigInt behaviour and standard Perl behaviour:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Math::BigInt;

my $x = Math::BigInt->new(17);
my $y = 70 / $x;

print $y, "\n";

$x = "$x.00";
#or:
#$x = "$x";

$y = 70 / $x;

print $y, "\n";

__END__

Outputs:
4
4.11764705882353
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Cheers,
Rob

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Re^8: All Calculations Done with One Variable Give Integer Answers by HalNineThousand (Beadle) on Sep 24, 2013 at 04:27 UTC
You're right. BigInt was used in the module - and then anything done with the variable returned from the module forces integer answers. And my problem is I'd like to find a way to override that reliably.	[reply]

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