Re^2: Multiply with 100 in perl

Floating point arithmetic has limited accuracy try bignum library.

perl -Mbignum -e 'printf"%.20F\n", 75.600 * 100;'

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Re^3: Multiply with 100 in perl by Anonymous Monk on Nov 12, 2015 at 01:39 UTC
Bignum is good, but printf still converts to float. `$ perl -Mbignum -e 'printf "%.32g\n", 75.600 * 10*30' 75599999999999995986368094273536 $ perl -Mbignum -le 'print 75.600 10**30' 75600000000000000000000000000000` [download]	[reply] [d/l]