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in thread Anyone with XS experience willing to create a high performance data type for Perl?

That's a bit of a problem, assuming you're talking about scientific notation.

99 is 9.9e1, 100 is 1e2, yet they're the same order of magnitude.

Taking the log10 of the number is better.

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