DreamT has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

Why does $test3 become 14 in the example below? I suspect that it is related to What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic in some way. But, should an int on a value that's already an integer be affected by that? 
my $test = 1.15;
my $test2 = ($test - 1) * 100;
my $test3 = int($test2);
print "test2: $test2\n";
print "test3: $test3\n";

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Re: Strange int behaviour?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 10, 2015 at 09:20 UTC

    Does this explain it for you?

    printf "%.17f\n", 1.15 - 1;;
0.14999999999999991

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      Yes, indeed:) Thank you!
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