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Re: [perl #120363] perl-5.18.0 apparently miscalculates the NV 1e-298

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Zefram
Date:
October 25, 2013 11:17
Subject:
Re: [perl #120363] perl-5.18.0 apparently miscalculates the NV 1e-298
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20131025111652.GZ21945@fysh.org
Sisyphus wrote:
>I presume there would be other values that also produce the discrepancy, 

See [perl #41202], where Perl gets the wrong value and libc gets the
right value for a text->float conversion where the value represented
textually can be exactly represented as an NV.

-zefram
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