Re: Why does Perl 6 math suck less?

$ perl6 -e 'say 5056.45 + 10112.92 == 15169.37 ?? "as expected" !! "pe
+rl math sucks!"'
as expected
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Re^2: Why does Perl 6 math suck less? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 12, 2011 at 10:57 UTC
Just out of curiosity .. How does Perl 6 get around this?	[reply]
Re^3: Why does Perl 6 math suck less? by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 12, 2011 at 11:01 UTC
By defaulting to rational numbers that are stored as two integers internally. As explained in the link I provided. (Note that floating point numbers are still accessible with by using scientifc notation, eg `0.1e0`) Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Why does Perl 6 math suck less? by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 12, 2011 at 11:23 UTC
By defaulting to rational numbers that are stored as two integers internally To get the same sort of behaviour with perl5 you could use Math::BigRat or Math::GMPq. Any other perl5 alternatives ? Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: Why does Perl 6 math suck less? by sharkey (Scribe) on Jan 12, 2011 at 16:23 UTC
How is 0.1 stored? as floating point or fixed point or ?	[reply]
Re^5: Why does Perl 6 math suck less? by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 12, 2011 at 16:42 UTC