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From: Francois Thomasset <francois.thomasset@inria.fr>
To: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
Cc: "Beck01, Wolfgang" <BeckW@t-systems.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] string_of_float less accurate than sprintf "%f" ?
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 14:54:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205021254.g42CsZv21816@ionie.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>  of "Thu, 02 May 2002 22:44:32 +1000." <3CD134B0.8050100@ozemail.com.au>

> Beck01, Wolfgang wrote:
> 
> There's another problem too:
> 
> # string_of_float 42.0;;
> - : string = "42"
> 
> The result isn't an ocaml float literal.
> 
Is it not?
# float_of_string (string_of_float 42.0);;
- : float = 42
So if you know that there is a float in the string, it is a float isn't it?

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-02 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-30  8:21 Beck01, Wolfgang
2002-05-02 12:44 ` John Max Skaller
2002-05-02 12:54   ` Francois Thomasset [this message]
2002-05-05 17:33     ` John Max Skaller
2002-05-02 13:28   ` David Chase
2002-05-05 18:19     ` John Max Skaller
2002-05-02 13:46   ` jeanmarc.eber
2002-05-03 14:41   ` Oliver Bandel
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020503162341.541E-100000@first.in-berlin.de >
2002-05-03 18:28     ` David Chase
2002-05-04  8:53 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-05-05  0:31   ` David McClain
2002-05-06 14:19   ` David Chase
2002-05-06 18:21     ` David McClain
2002-05-03 19:25 David Chase

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