Well Perl's error correction (or that of the underlying C lib) is better than it's reputation 
   
DB<186> $x1= 1000*(4/25)
 => 160

  DB<187> $x2= 4000/25
 => 160

  DB<188> $x1 == $x2
 => 1

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What's puzzling me is this behaviour: 

  DB<205>  for (254..263) {$x = 1000 * ( $_ + 4/25 ); printf "%.20f\n"
+, $x} 

254160.00000000000000000000
255160.00000000000000000000
256160.00000000002910383046
257160.00000000002910383046
258160.00000000002910383046
259160.00000000002910383046
260160.00000000002910383046
261160.00000000002910383046
262160.00000000000000000000
263160.00000000000000000000

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
Je suis Charlie!

update

interestingly this only seems to happen near some powers of 2

  DB<220>  for (0..20) {$e=2**$_; $x = 1000 * ( $e + 4/25 ); printf "$
+_:$e => %.20f\n", $x if ($x-int($x))} 
5:32 => 32159.99999999999636202119
8:256 => 256160.00000000002910383046
9:512 => 512159.99999999994179233909
10:1024 => 1024160.00000000011641532183
11:2048 => 2048159.99999999976716935635
15:32768 => 32768160.00000000372529029846
18:262144 => 262144159.99999997019767761230
19:524288 => 524288160.00000005960464477539
20:1048576 => 1048576159.99999988079071044922

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update

in hindsight this may be an effect of precision and correction of the underlying processor and usage of arithmetic units, hence machine dependent.

In reply to Re^2: Integers sometimes turn into Reals after substraction (error correction ?) by LanX
in thread Integers sometimes turn into Reals after substraction by rduke15

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