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Years ago, while assisting a client with a Perl program, the client demonstrated a function that he was very proud of. The purpose of this function was to overcome the limitations of Perl and allow for larger floating point numbers. The code itself was a few hundred lines long, took weeks of work, and was still a bit buggy.
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Rothwell, W.“. (2020). Exploring Useful Built-in Modules. In: Pro Perl Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5605-3_8
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