It's late here, I'm tired, and I was questioning my sanity until I distilled my bug to it's essence. Now I'm questioning perl's sanity. What's going on here? 
my $x = 1.1 - 1.0; 
print(qq[$x <= 0.1 ? ] . ($x <= 0.1 ? q[yes] : q[no] ));

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I won't tell you what gets printed, because I don't believe it. Try it on your command line. What do you get? Why?????? Then, should this be different? It is. 
my $x = 1.0 - 0.9; 
print(qq[$x <= 0.1 ? ] . ($x <= 0.1 ? q[yes] : q[no] ));

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fwiw, 
~$: perl -v
This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi

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using my $x = 1.2 - 1.1 is even more interesting.....

i look forward to your wise clarifications in the morning, and easing my mind greatly, this monk must now get some rest....


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It's what you’re doin' when you’re doin' what you look like you’re doin'!
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In reply to bug in floating point math? by qbxk

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