Hello chiel,

You should definitely read the pages LanX linked to. The second especially is required reading for anyone who wants to write a computer program.

However, I did want to point out you can use the bignum pragma to get Perl 5 to do what you want:

$ perl -e '
use warnings;
use bignum;

my $size = 0.01;
my $step_size = 0.01;

while($size < 5){
  $size = $size + $step_size;
  print $size."\n";
}

print "FINAL: ".$size."\n";'


...
4.94
4.95
4.96
4.97
4.98
4.99
5
FINAL: 5

[download]

Best,

Jim

In reply to Re: While loop with addition goes weird by jimpudar
in thread While loop with addition goes weird by chiel

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