in reply to Re^3: unexpected result using '>='
in thread unexpected result using '>='

But you almost never want to use ge for comparing numbers. For example, 
my $x = 3;
my $y = 20;
if ($x ge $y) {
  print "$x ge $y\n";
}

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will print "3 ge 20".

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