#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; my ($number1, $number2, $number3) = ; my $number = 5.13E-04; my $other = "5.13E-04"; print "sum 1 = ", $number + $other; print "\n"; print "sum 2 = ", $number1 + $number2 + $number3; __DATA__ 5.12E-04 5.12E+04 1