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This compliant solution uses the Bignum module to ensure precise computation. The Bignum module is available in CPAN, but became part of Perl's standard library for version 5.148.
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use bignum;
my $x = 10000000000000000; # 1e+16
for (my $y = $x; $y <= $x + 5; $y += 1) {
print "$y\n";
}
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| [Gough 2005] | Section 8.6, "Floating-point issues" |
| [IEEE 754 2006] | |
| [CPAN] | Florian Ragwitz, bignum |
| [Meta CPAN] | perlnumber |
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