From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA06077; Thu, 2 May 2002 14:44:50 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA06078 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 14:44:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g42CilX06197 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 14:44:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g42CikXt004188; Thu, 2 May 2002 22:44:46 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp29.dyn71.pacific.net.au [202.7.71.29]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id WAA21234; Thu, 2 May 2002 22:44:39 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3CD134B0.8050100@ozemail.com.au> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 22:44:32 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Beck01, Wolfgang" CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] string_of_float less accurate than sprintf "%f" ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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. -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners