X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:01:49 +0100 From: Owen Rees To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: strange behavior with perl v 5.8.8 Message-ID: <6F610F274679310E33C07DE5@orees.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <5abc24640709270814j5148c43ejbfe46f022fd6ad1b@mail.gmail.com> References: <5abc24640709270814j5148c43ejbfe46f022fd6ad1b@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com --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 0.9999999999 to the end of the > number. This is rounding error and applies to all computer systems and all programming languages that use fixed size number representations. It can be fatal - for example see . -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP. ======================================================== Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered No: 690597 England Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/