perl6 also use rationals (by default)... $ perl6 > 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 True > (0.1 + 0.2).perl 3/10 For perl5 you must use the bigrat pragma: $ re

perl6 also use rationals (by default)... $ perl6 > 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 True > (0.1 + 0.2).perl 3/10 For perl5 you must use the bigrat pragma: $ re.pl > 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 1 > use bigrat; > 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 1 ref: http://perldoc.perl.org/bigrat.html http://perldoc.perl.org/bigrat.html