in reply to (s)printf and rounding woes

Any integer + .005 is not going to be exactly representable in floating point. Sometimes you are getting a repesentable value above the true one and sometimes one below. Try this:
for my $num ( 0 .. 101 ) { $num += 0.005; printf "%.2f\t%.20g\n", $num, $num; }
to see the actual values you are rounding and it should make more sense. (The output starts:)
0.01 0.0050000000000000001041 1.00 1.0049999999999998934 2.00 2.0049999999999998934 3.00 3.0049999999999998934 4.00 4.0049999999999998934 5.00 5.0049999999999998934 6.00 6.0049999999999998934 7.00 7.0049999999999998934 8.01 8.0050000000000007816 9.01 9.0050000000000007816 10.01 10.005000000000000782 11.01 11.005000000000000782 12.01 12.005000000000000782 13.01 13.005000000000000782 14.01 14.005000000000000782 15.01 15.005000000000000782 16.00 16.004999999999999005