From: Eric Dahlman <edahlman@atcorp.com>
To: Christophe Raffalli <Christophe.Raffalli@univ-savoie.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Rounding mode
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:10:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FAF9C64.7090504@atcorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FAF975F.5070105@univ-savoie.fr>
Christophe Raffalli wrote:
>
> I saw a previous discussion about rounding mode for OCaml (in 2000).
>
> As anyone implemented the functions to change the rounding mode for
> floating point from OCaml (possibly as a patch to add primitives and
> save a C function call) ?
>
> This is necessary to implement interval arithmetic ...
Somewhat off topic but why is this necessary from a numerical math type
of perspective. I am honestly curious as I don't see how this would
interact with the calculation in a meaningful way.
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-10 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-07 17:27 [Caml-list] Efficient and canonical set representation? Fred Smith
2003-11-10 13:24 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-11-10 13:49 ` [Caml-list] Rounding mode Christophe Raffalli
2003-11-10 14:10 ` Eric Dahlman [this message]
2003-11-10 18:03 ` Brian Hurt
2003-11-10 20:35 ` Eric Dahlman
2003-11-10 23:09 ` Brian Hurt
2003-11-17 21:15 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-11-12 17:19 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-11-13 15:47 ` Eric Dahlman
2003-11-17 17:03 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-11-10 21:23 ` Christophe Raffalli
[not found] ` <16305.25815.3793.545198@karryall.dnsalias.org>
2003-11-12 15:35 ` [Caml-list] Rounding mode + extended Christophe Raffalli
2003-11-13 17:35 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-11-10 19:28 ` [Caml-list] Efficient and canonical set representation? Julien Signoles
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