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On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Tels wrote:
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> Moin,
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> On Monday 09 April 2007 19:00:56 Andy Dougherty wrote:
> > On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, jhh wrote:
> > > Using bignum or bigint does not change the results.
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> > That's odd. You'll have to show us specifically what you're doing.
> > It's probably best if you modify the program below and show what you
> > expect and what you get. BigInt should work.
> When using "-Mbignum", the diff will be zero, but the printout of $c will be
> wrong since %0.f is used, which converts the BigInt to a normal floating
> point value before printing, thus losing bits:
Yes. I agree. That's why I said the original poster would have to
show us specifically what he was doing.
You are also correct that the wrong number is still printed by
printf("%.0f"). However, the wrong number also was printed with perl5.6
and that apparently wasn't an important issue for the original poster.
(Why it didn't matter, I don't know, but then I don't know the full
context of the original problem.)
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Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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