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in reply to What does this print for you?

Doesn't Perl also use the operating system's math libraries? That may be another source of variation.

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Re^2: What does this print for you?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 25, 2009 at 06:21 UTC
    You must be thinking of the C library. It's used to parse numbers, for one. Different compilers, different libraries.
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