in reply to Re^2: Multiply with 100 in perl
in thread Multiply with 100 in perl

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

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