25 Aug
                
                    2009
                
            
            
                25 Aug
                
                '09
                
            
            
            
        
    
                12:23 p.m.
            
        2009/8/22 Roberto López 
You get the accuracy value in Perl, but there is the same problem in Python. It's a bit discouraging.
You don't get an accurate answer with Perl. It just lies to you to keep you happy in your ignorance. $ perl -e 'printf "%.22f\n", log(1000)/log(10);' 2.9999999999999995559108