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Re^3: Small Perl 6 discoveries II, Rats
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 27, 2017 at 19:05 UTC
    So the question becomes, why does perl6 print all those wrong digits? 
    > perl5 -E 'say 1.111111111111111111111'
1.11111111111111
> perl6 -e 'say 1.111111111111111111111'
1.11111111111111111604544

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      Are you trolling or what?

      Here Perl6 is 1000 times more accurate, it's just not lying to you about being arbitrarily precise. You will notice that 1.11111111111111 is three digits shorter than 1.11111111111111111 !

      And also: 
      holli@605 ~ $ perl -e 'say "oops" unless 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3'
oops
holli@605 ~ $ perl6 -e 'say "yeah" if 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3'
yeah

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      holli

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        > perl5 -E 'say 3e-1 - .3'
0
> perl6 -e 'say 3e-1 - .3'
5.55111512312578e-17

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      why does perl6 print all those wrong digits?

      There is a well-hidden message in the "wrong" digits. Click here and follow the links.

      Alexander

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        Why the difference? 
        > 111111111111111111111/1000000000000000000000
0.111111111111111
> .111111111111111111111
0.11111111111111111604544

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