in reply to Floating point issue
consider this simple one-liner where the output should presumably be 0:
A very small number, indeed, but not zero.$ perl -e 'print .1 + .2 - .3, "\n"' 5.55111512312578e-17
BTW, the same in the Perl 6 REPL:
> say .1 + .2 - .3 0
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