NAME Data::Float - details of the floating point data type DESCRIPTION This module is about the native floating point numerical data type. A floating point number is one of the types of datum that can appear in the numeric part of a Perl scalar. This module supplies constants describing the native floating point type, classification functions, and functions to manipulate floating point values at a low level. INSTALLATION perl Makefile.PL make make test make install AUTHOR Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org> Currently maintained by Robert Rothenberg <rrwo@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2025 Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org> LICENSE This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.