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Re: Rounding a number using (s)printf

by borisz (Canon)
on Jan 19, 2005 at 22:36 UTC ( [id://423535]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Rounding a number using (s)printf

Floating point numbers are not exactly represented. 
perl -e 'printf "%.18f", 1.255'
__OUTPUT__
1.254999999999999893

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so 1.25 is the correct result.
Boris

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