Re: Strange log behavior?

in reply to Strange log behavior?

>perl -E"say sprintf '%.20g', log (1000) / log (10)"
2.9999999999999996

>perl -E"say int( log (1000) / log (10) )"
2

>perl -E"say log (1000) / log (10) % 3"
2

>perl -E"say 2 % 3"
2
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