Assuming (as we must -- else your problem has no clean solution) that the elements in @data are unique.

Given: 

my @data    = ('70.1', '75.3','76.5', '87.4');
my @numbers = ('0.001','0.34','0.456','0.521');

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...then just do: 
my %look_up;
@look_up{@data} = @numbers;

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...and then you can retrieve the values as needed. E.g.: print $look_up{76.5}, "\n";   # prints: 0.456

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In reply to Re: relating arrays by dvergin
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