From: David Chase <chase@world.std.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] string_of_float less accurate than sprintf "%f" ?
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 14:28:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020503142712.01dc7628@pop.theWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020503162341.541E-100000@first.in-berlin.de >
At 04:41 PM 5/3/2002 +0200, Oliver Bandel wrote:
>But a problem can occur too, when the type is not known
>from within the program: When writing the string-representation
>of a float to a file and read it back from the file,
>then the non-float representation of the float yields
>in parsing-/type-problems.
>So that is a problem within the program and it's data
>(I/O)... So this seems to be actually a problem.
>
>If (string_of_float 42.0) yields "42.0" (instead of "42"),
>this maybe is not the right value, because it maybe is only
>correct as "42.0000000000000"?
>Well.... philosophical question?
The "right" answer is to steal from Java, assuming that the
floating point data types are relativ
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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
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 [this message]
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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