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From Thomas G. Lockhart
Subject Re: [HACKERS] NUMERIC and Perl
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Msg-id 36DCB721.C6D4E271@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] NUMERIC and Perl  (jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck))
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>     Should  be  a string - or is Perl capable of handling numbers
>     with hundreds of digits before and after  the  decimal  point
>     (ALL SIGNIFICANT)?

golem> perl -e '{printf("%30.18f\n", 1234567890.2345678901234567890)}'1234567890.234567880630493164

Looks like not, unless I'm forgetting a feature...
                  - Tom

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