in reply to Re: Instructive bug
in thread Instructive bug

You have the right idea. I actually got floats earlier than the 32-bit barrier though. Can anyone other than mpeppler guess why?

And for perrin, what I did about it was put in a slight fudge factor to handle small roundoffs, and on the inner loop I put a fatal check for overrunning the balances array in case the hack failed. I have had no problems since.

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Re: Re (tilly) 2: Instructive bug
by ChemBoy (Priest) on Mar 05, 2002 at 18:19 UTC
    Well, it seems rather as if you were dealing with money here, in which case I imagine that you started out with floating-point values, no?


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Re: Re (tilly) 2: Instructive bug
by mdillon (Priest) on Mar 05, 2002 at 17:48 UTC
    The division will cause a floating point coversion, I believe.
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      And when dealing with money they arise before that because...?
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        The input is floating point (at least in plain Perl without using Math::FixedPrecision or something). Heh.
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