Your "formula" seems overly complicated (and probably broken). For the start, I'd go with a quick&dirty simple & minimal variant and advance from there:

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;

my @prices = qw'.1 17.95 0 10000  0.00 21 .22';
my $qtyx = 3; 

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print
   map "$_ x $qtyx, total costs are: ". VIEWPRICE( MAKEPRICE($_)*$qtyx
+ ) .'<br />',
      @prices;

sub MAKEPRICE {
 (my $mp = sprintf "%.2f", (shift)) =~ tr/.//d;
 return $mp
}

sub VIEWPRICE {
 my $vp = sprintf "%03d", (shift);
 $vp =~ s/(..)$/.$1/ or $vp = sprintf "%.2f",$vp;
 return $vp
}

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This prints (<br /> translated):

Content-type: text/html

.1 x 3, total costs are: 0.30
17.95 x 3, total costs are: 53.85
0 x 3, total costs are: 0.00
10000 x 3, total costs are: 30000.00
0.00 x 3, total costs are: 0.00
21 x 3, total costs are: 63.00
.22 x 3, total costs are: 0.66

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Regards

mwa

In reply to Re: Multiplication problem by mwah
in thread Multiplication problem by John Vanbeek

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