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Re: strange behavior with perl v 5.8.8
On 9/27/07, Brian Mathis wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Andrew Louie wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've run into a strange adding problem with perl:
> >
> > when incrementing by 0.1 i get a strange behavior where at some
> > arbitrary number, it will append 0.9999999999 to the end of the
> > number.
> >
>
> There's an excellent explanation of this (just posted today about the
> recently discovered Excel 2007 bug) here:
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/26b.html
>
thanks!
I never really thought about this before becuase it was never a problem.
anyway I was able to fix my problem with sprintf.
thanks for all the informative replies.
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-Andrew Louie
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