in reply to strange arithmetic

If you had warnings enabled you'd be seeing:

C:\test>perl -wE"print (1-1/2000)**$i;"
print (...) interpreted as function at -e line 1.
Useless use of exponentiation (**) in void context at -e line 1.

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