* [Caml-list] How standard is exponentiation in ocaml? [not found] ` <CAAYUt0OGyp35f-aDtCsQy2OQH1JrHJUp1GBUiUPEkBrwFth5xg@mail.gmail.com> @ 2014-06-04 20:21 ` Arthur Breitman 2014-06-04 21:03 ` Jacques-Henri Jourdan 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Arthur Breitman @ 2014-06-04 20:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: caml-list [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 393 bytes --] Hello, How standard is exponentiation in ocaml? Specifically, is the result of (**): float -> float -> float guaranteed to be the same for the same input regardless of the compiler's version? Are any number of digits guaranteed to be correct? In which case I could truncate. I do not care too much about exactitude, but I need the operation's semantic to be exactly defined. Best, Arthur [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 517 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [Caml-list] How standard is exponentiation in ocaml? 2014-06-04 20:21 ` [Caml-list] How standard is exponentiation in ocaml? Arthur Breitman @ 2014-06-04 21:03 ` Jacques-Henri Jourdan 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Jacques-Henri Jourdan @ 2014-06-04 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: caml-list [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 663 bytes --] Hi, (**) in OCaml is implemented using the C stdlib pow function. AFAIK, there is no strict guarantees on the precision of these functions... -- JH Le 04/06/2014 22:21, Arthur Breitman a écrit : > Hello, > > How standard is exponentiation in ocaml? > > Specifically, is the result of > (**): float -> float -> float > guaranteed to be the same for the same input regardless of the compiler's > version? > > Are any number of digits guaranteed to be correct? In which case I could > truncate. > > I do not care too much about exactitude, but I need the operation's > semantic to be exactly defined. > > Best, > Arthur > [-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 538 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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