# New Ticket Created by Zefram # Please include the string: [perl #130155] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130155 >
> 2e0**-1019 1.78005908680576e-307 > 2e0**-1020 8.90029543402881e-308 > 2.0**-1019 1.78005908680576e-307 > 2.0**-1020 0 > 0.5**1019 1.78005908680576e-307 > 0.5**1020 0 > 1 / (2.0**1019) 1.78005908680576e-307 > 1 / (2.0**1020) 0 The three ways of computing 2**-1020 from Rat values all bogusly underflow to zero. As you can see, the exact value is representable in the Num type, which all of these Rat operations use for their results. -zefram
