In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/8548cb578e4b4a0b9e3b56af82a8b95a270dc769?hp=08fe1c446dfd7f69d072837b13864047af619591>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 8548cb578e4b4a0b9e3b56af82a8b95a270dc769 Author: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <r...@consttype.org> Date: Tue Apr 13 11:42:12 2010 +0200 [perl #74198] Typo in perlop(1) reported by r...@sc3d.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perlop.pod | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index ea0b07f..ebe32fb 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -2520,8 +2520,8 @@ so some corners must be cut. For example: printf "%.20g\n", 123456789123456789; # produces 123456789123456784 -Testing for exact equality of floating-point equality or inequality is -not a good idea. Here's a (relatively expensive) work-around to compare +Testing for exact floating-point equality or inequality is not a +good idea. Here's a (relatively expensive) work-around to compare whether two floating-point numbers are equal to a particular number of decimal places. See Knuth, volume II, for a more robust treatment of this topic. -- Perl5 Master Repository