If you search back to the comment that started this subthread you&#x27;ll find it began:<p>&quot;Try 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 in some other language, then try it in Perl 6.&quot;<p>Do you agree with all of the next sentence or not? Please start with a plain yes or no before getting in to details.<p>The three individual literal decimal numbers shown above are not integers, they&#x27;re not binary fractions, they&#x27;re not floats, they are rational numbers, they are exact numbers, they are easily stored exactly on a computer, and whether or not they are stored exactly on a computer is a choice made by a programming language.