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Re:Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? by bbv-if on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:59AM (#22864565)
I have burnt myself once with perl: numbers that are printed the same are not necessarily equal.

  DB<1> say((0.1+0.2) != 0.3)
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Re:Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? by emilper on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:10PM (#22867690)
that is floating point for you, not Perl
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