Re^2: expected 0 not result gotten

[Anonymous Monk]

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in thread expected 0 not result gotten

surprising but true, i get something like, $ perl -we 'my $x = (.0425 * 2) + .0025; print $x - (.042+5 * 2) - .0025, $/;' -9.957 i am using perl 5.8.8

[quester]

Do you mean that it surprises you that

.0425*2

is different than

.042+5*2

Um... wow... really?