floating-point-BUG? (was: Re: me, bugs and 3.14)

["Thomas 'Balu' Walter" <tw@iTreff.DE>]

* Thomas 'Balu' Walter (tw@iTreff.DE) [15.06.99 10:17]:
> This does not help... I think there is a problem with floating point
> numbers... Check this out:
> 
> [currency]                                                                    
>   [calc]1+1.5[/calc]                                                          
> [/currency]                                                                   
> 
> This gives 2,00 DM in my setup, while
> 
> [currency]                                                                    
>   [calc]1+1,5[/calc]                                                          
> [/currency]                                                                   
> 
> has a result of 5,00 DM.
> 

Hmm...
I just noticed the following fact in my Euro-Locale-Problem:
Locale eur_EUR PriceDivide         1.95583

This is also a floating-point Number... changing to 2.9... restarting...
checking... (is 779/2=389.5 true? yes).

Hm - it actually seems that this is a problem with the .,-numbers.

Is this because of a wrong perl-setup or a bug in minivend?

bash-2.02# perl -v
This is perl, version 5.005_02 built for i586-linux

It is a SuSE-Linux 6.1-System...

    Balu