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$ perl -e'printf "%.0f\n", $_ for 5.4999999999, 5.5'
5
6

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I don't get what's the problem with the above. The output is what I would expect.

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Re^7: test fails on 64bit uselongdouble Perl
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 30, 2009 at 14:48 UTC

    The point is that a infinitely small floating point error can change the result by 1.0

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