A program that illustrates round-off error problems in floating-point arithmetic. : float « Data Type « Perl






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A program that illustrates round-off error problems in floating-point arithmetic.

    
#!/usr/local/bin/perl 

$value = 9.01e+21 + 0.01 - 9.01e+21; 
print ("first value is ", $value, "\n"); 
$value = 9.01e+21 - 9.01e+21 + 0.01; 
print ("second value is ", $value, "\n");








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