$ perl -lwe 'use Devel::Peek; my $x = 15; $x += .1 for 1..10; Dump $x; print $x; printf "%.20f\n", $x' SV = PVNV(0x8151ff0) at 0x814f69c REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,NOK,pNOK) IV = 15 NV = 16 PV = 0 16 15.99999999999999644729