in reply to Re^2: 4253.95 + 0.9 = 4254.84999999999 (need help to interpret internals)
in thread 4253.95 + 0.9 = 4254.84999999999 (need help to interpret internals)

When you stringify them, you're forcing perl to round them. If it makes you feel any better about it, you could explicitly round them with sprintf.
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