Re^3: All Calculations Done with One Variable Give Integer Answers

The line $mins = "$mins.00"; turns the Math::BigInt object into a standard Perl scalar. If you inspect $mins using Data::Dumper before and after $mins = "$mins.00"; you get:

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'value' => [
                              43200
                            ],
                 'sign' => '+'
               }, 'Math::BigInt' );

$VAR1 = '43200.00';
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So (with hindsight!) had you used Data::Dumper as a first step to see what's going on, you would have been told immediately. But this is only with hindsight...

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Re^4: All Calculations Done with One Variable Give Integer Answers by marinersk (Priest) on Sep 24, 2013 at 11:24 UTC
Perhaps this time it is "Hindsight", but next time it could be "Lesson Learned", "Experience", "Defensive Programming", or, Monastary forbid, a "Good Engineering Practice". This incident has added a rather large stone on the scale which was already precariously close to tipping in favor of switching to the use of `Data::Dumper` over my rather obsolete and unrobust homespun `debug` module from longer ago than I'd care to admit. Thanks for the analysis and summary. Thanks to the OP for posting -- and clarifying -- the problem.	[reply]
Re^4: All Calculations Done with One Variable Give Integer Answers by HalNineThousand (Beadle) on Sep 24, 2013 at 06:53 UTC
Yes, with hindsight! Funny how often we get the answer and then realize that the right 1st step would have solved it. Thank you!	[reply]