Hello, this seems very strange. 
for ($x=0.8; $x > 0.1; $x -= 0.01) { print "$x\n"; }

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result (look at the end): 
0.8
0.79
0.78
0.77
0.76
0.75
0.74
0.73
0.72
0.71
0.7
0.69
0.68
0.67
0.66
0.65
0.64
0.63
0.62
0.61
0.6
0.59
0.58
0.57
0.56
0.55
0.54
0.53
0.52
0.51
0.5
0.49
0.48
0.47
0.46
0.45
0.44
0.43
0.42
0.41
0.4
0.39
0.38
0.37
0.36
0.35
0.34
0.33
0.32
0.31
0.3
0.29
0.28
0.27
0.26
0.25
0.24
0.23
0.22
0.21
0.2
0.19
0.179999999999999
0.169999999999999
0.159999999999999
0.149999999999999
0.139999999999999
0.129999999999999
0.119999999999999
0.109999999999999
can someone explain this please..?

This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
Ubuntu 20.04

In reply to what did I just see..? by ishaybas

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