[Detroit-pm] Strange problem with simple math in perl

Craig Maloney craig at decafbad.net
Thu Nov 12 07:50:32 PST 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 10:34 -0500, Jim McQuillan wrote:

> That's awfully close to the right answer, but I'm depending on perl to 
> be useful for calculating account balances.
> 

You might want to use integer math for this instead ( multiply by 100,
then do the subtraction). That'll guarantee you won't get bit by some
float anomaly.

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