You could also have some fun doing something like this:

my @numbers = ('0.13', '0.14', '0.14', '0.19', '0.21', '0.23', '0.45')
+;
my %differences = ();

for (my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@numbers); $i++) {
        next if $i == 0;
        push @{$differences{($numbers[$i] - $numbers[$i - 1])}}, $numb
+ers[$i] . " - " . $numbers[$i - 1];
}

foreach (sort keys %differences) {
        print STDOUT "Difference ($_) occured: ", join (', ', @{$diffe
+rences{$_}}), "\n"
}

exit 0;

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I guess that's going beyond the exercise a little bit, but kind of fun and turned out this:

Difference (0) occured: 0.14 - 0.14
Difference (0.01) occured: 0.14 - 0.13
Difference (0.02) occured: 0.21 - 0.19, 0.23 - 0.21
Difference (0.05) occured: 0.19 - 0.14
Difference (0.22) occured: 0.45 - 0.23

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In reply to Re: Re: Comparing numbers by jreades
in thread Comparing numbers by Anonymous Monk

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