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This too is due to the exponential notation always generating Nums instead of Rats. So if you substract a value with rounding errors minus the same value without rounding errors, what you have left is the rounding error.


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Re^6: Small Perl 6 discoveries III, Ints
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 29, 2017 at 06:05 UTC
    The rounding errors aren't the problem. It's the inconsistency of the rounding errors that's worrying us.
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