Beloved Brethren and Sistren:

I am having a difficulty that is sorely trying me. I am trying to use the BigFloat module for various calculations. My code is thus:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use Math::BigFloat;

my $float=Math::BigFloat->new(2.0);
$float->bsqrt();
print "\$float is a:\t" . ref($float) . "\n";
my $int = $float->as_int();
print "\$int is a:\t" .ref($int) . "\n";
print "\$float\t$float\n\$int:\t$int\n";

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According to the documents, the as_int() method should return an BigInt value. However, as you can see from this output, it does not:

$float is a:  Math::BigFloat
$int is a:    Math::BigFloat
$float        1.41421356237309504880168872420969807857
$int:         1.41421356237309504880168872420969807857

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The documentation for this module says:

$x->as_int(); # return $x as BigInt
What am I doing wrong? I assume I've made some assumption that isn't true, but I haven't been able to find anything in the documentation that explains this mysterious behavior. I cannot believe that this is a bug... any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Update: Thanks, Zaxo. That worked beautifully...

In reply to Unexpected behavior of a method in BigFloat by spiritway

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