Re: == operator acts differently in perl 5.005_03 and 5.8.2

From: Ilya Zakharevich (nospam-abuse_at_ilyaz.org)
Date: 03/22/05

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    Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:05:19 +0000 (UTC)

    [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
    Anno Siegel
    <anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>], who wrote in article <d1mh4a$2rq$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>:
    > perl -e 'printf "%.24f %.24f\n", 2.2e-7, 0.22e-6'
    >
    > prints
    >
    > 0.000000219999999999999985 0.000000220000000000000011

    Can you explain why this is not considered as a bug in CRTL? Should
    not string-to-double conversion return the closest "double-precision
    number" to the real number represented by the input? So the second
    number should be returned in both cases?

    Puzzled,
    Ilya

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