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 0.99 to the end of the
> > number.
> >
>
> T
On 9/27/07, Andrew Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 0.99 to the end of the
> number.
>
There's an excellent explanation of
--On Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:14:09 AM -0400 Andrew Louie wrote:
when incrementing by 0.1 i get a strange behavior where at some
arbitrary number, it will append 0.99 to the end of the
number.
This is rounding error and applies to all computer systems and all
programming langu
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 0.99 to the end of the
number.
test case:
-
On 27 September 2007 16:14, Andrew Louie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've run into a strange adding problem with perl:
>
> when incrementing by 0.1
... an infinite, non-repeating fraction in binary floating-point, that can
only be inexactly approximated ...
> i get a strange behavior where at some
>
Nope, not a Cygwin specific issue.
I get the same behavior at the same point on Gentoo perl 5.8.8 (x86
dual-Xeon), Debian Etch perl 5.8.8 (x86 P4), and SunOS 5.10 perl 5.8.4.
William Sutton
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Andrew Louie wrote:
Hello,
I've run into a strange adding problem with perl:
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 0.99 to the end of the
number.
test case:
my $st
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