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in thread perl newbie question

you might want to consider rounding before you take the int. Because your denominator is pretty large, you shouldn't get any fuzz issues, but you do want to add a half to make sure you get the correct second decimal point.

int EXPR

Returns the integer portion of EXPR. If EXPR is omitted, uses $_. You should not use this function for rounding: one because it truncates towards 0, and two because machine representations of floating point numbers can sometimes produce counterintuitive results. For example, int(-6.725/0.025) produces -268 rather than the correct -269; that's because it's really more like -268.99999999999994315658 instead. Usually, the sprintf, printf, or the POSIX::floor and POSIX::ceil functions will serve you better than will int().