And you can also lose precision by stringifying the numbers: 

@a= (1/3, 3); 
$prod1= eval join "*", @a; 
$prod2= 1; $prod2*= $_ for @a; 
print $prod1,$/, $prod2,$/;

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outputs 
0.999999999999999
1

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I'm not trying to attack you, but this can be a trap at other times when you store floating-point numbers as text. I learned in when I wrote the obfu Fun with duff's device and AUTOLOAD.

Also look at what happens if the numbers are object with stringification. Look: 

use Math::Complex; @a= (1+i, 2); $prod1= eval join "*", @a; $prod2= 1;
+ $prod2*= $_ for @a; print $prod1,$/, $prod2,$/;

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output is: 
1+2i
2+2i

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In reply to Re: Re: Multiplying together the numers in an array by ambrus
in thread Multiplying together the numers in an array by Cody Pendant

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