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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:27:16 -0400
From: "Brian Mathis" <brian DOT mathis AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: strange behavior with perl v 5.8.8
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On 9/27/07, Andrew Louie <louiea AT gmail DOT com> 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

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