in reply to How do I print/round a number to a given number of decimal places?

Try running this: 
printf "%23.20f\n",$_+.425 for 7, 8;

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Maybe reading What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic can enlighten you about the reasons.
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