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rurban on Jan 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: 9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0

In perl5 it's easier:

    perl -Mbignum -e'print 9999999999999999.0 - 9999999999999998.0'
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The BigFloat solution on the website is suboptimal.

lizmat on Jan 5, 2019 [–]

In Perl 6 even shorter than that:

    perl6 -e'print 9999999999999999.0 - 9999999999999998.0'
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