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1+1 Nearly Equals 2
I searched around a bit on my own, and I found that I may be suffering from the way Perl (and other languages, apparently) represent floating point numbers in binary form. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#Data%3a-Numbers I didn't post my code because it didn't happen every time - I'd have... -
1+1 Nearly Equals 2
I'm having a weird problem, and I'm hoping that somebody can put me on the path to fixing it. I have a number of scripts where I perform a subtraction operation and get a weird result. I get things like 6 - 0.2 = 5.8000000001 or 5.79999999999 instead of just good ol' vanilla 5.8. I'm not sure...
