From: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: "Beck01, Wolfgang" <BeckW@t-systems.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] string_of_float less accurate than sprintf "%f" ?
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 22:44:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD134B0.8050100@ozemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C3F9C806AEC6D5119643000347055E322088D8@G9JNW.mgb01.telekom.de>
Beck01, Wolfgang wrote:
>Hello,
>
>while doing some time measurements with Unix.gettimeofday() I
>discovered a problem with string_of_float:
>
># string_of_float 123456789.123456789;;
>- : string = "123456789.123"
>
There's another problem too:
# string_of_float 42.0;;
- : string = "42"
The result isn't an ocaml float literal.
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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 [this message]
2002-05-02 12:54 ` Francois Thomasset
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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