Did I say it's a Perl problem?

I learned the terms "rounding error" and "accumulated rounding error" in CS classes at university for these effects. °

To be sure it's not a translation problem, I searched and found (among many others) this English Wikipedia article

> Rounding error

A roundoff error, also called rounding error, is the difference between the result produced by a given algorithm using exact arithmetic and the result produced by the same algorithm using finite-precision, rounded arithmetic.

Rounding errors are due to inexactness in the representation of real numbers and the arithmetic operations done with them.

So what exactly is your problem now?

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

update

°) actually I think I already learned it in school in physics classes. The concept is older than CS. I suppose it was introduced a century earlier by Carl Friedrich Gauß.

In reply to Re^3: Perl 5 numeric type and simplifications by LanX
in thread Perl 5 numeric type and simplifications by pango

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