say "Floating points: (Nums)"; say "Error: " ~ (2**-53).Num; sub infix:<±+> (Num $a, Num $b) { my \ε = (2**-53).Num; $a - ε + $b, $a + ε + $b, } printf "%4.16f .. %4.16f\n", (1.14e0 ±+ 2e3); say "\nRationals:"; say ".1 + .2 is exactly equal to .3: ", .1 + .2 === .3; say "\nLarge denominators require explicit coercion to FatRats:"; say "Sum of inverses of the first 500 natural numbers:"; my $sum = sum (1..500).map: { FatRat.new(1,$_) }; say $sum; say $sum.nude; { say "\nRat stringification may not show full precision for terminating fractions by default."; say "Use a module to get full precision."; use Rat::Precise; # module loading is scoped to the enclosing block my $rat = 1.5**63; say "\nPerl 6 default stringification for 1.5**63:\n" ~ $rat; # standard stringification say "\nRat::Precise stringification for 1.5**63:\n" ~$rat.precise; # full precision }