strange behavior with perl v 5.8.8

[Owen Rees]

--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 
<http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html>.

-- 
Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP.
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