in reply to Perl with precision

See these :) What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

perlnumber, bignum Math::FixedPrecision, Math::BigInt, Math::Currency

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Re^2: Perl with precision
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 29, 2012 at 00:07 UTC
    Psst. Your replies are more relevant if you read more than just the title before replying.

      Psst. Your replies are more relevant if you read more than just the title before replying.

      Can you explain how they are not relevant?

      It is not unreasonable to have assumed that the problem being posed actually did have to do with numeric precision as opposed to actually being (apparently) related to octal notation... If the issue had been something to do with high precision arithmetic, as the topic title certainly suggests, these links would have been very apropos. (And, to anyone who IS dealing with such a problem, they still are.)