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From: Christian Lindig <lindig@cs.uni-sb.de>
To: Remi Vanicat <remi.vanicat@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Printing floating point numbers & precision
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:56:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A051B81-137F-11D9-A02F-000A95CB833C@cs.uni-sb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b8a914204093012256481d02d@mail.gmail.com>


On Sep 30, 2004, at 9:25 PM, Remi Vanicat wrote:

>> I've combed the documentation to try to understand the relationship 
>> between
>> printing and precision (and accuracy!) but have come up empty handed.

A very good source for understanding printing and reading of 
floating-point numbers are these two articles; they appeared in the 
same PLDI '90 proceedings.

G. L. Steele Jr. and J. L. White. How to print floating-point numbers 
accurately. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '90 Conference on 
Programming Language Design and Implementation, pages 112--126, White 
Plains, New York, June 1990.

W. D. Clinger, How to read floating point numbers accurately, 
Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGPLAN} '90 Conference on Programming 
Language Design and Implementation, SIGPLAN Notices, pages 92--101, 
White Plains, New York, June 1990.

-- Christian

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-01  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-30 16:52 mff
2004-09-30 19:25 ` Remi Vanicat
2004-10-01  7:56   ` Christian Lindig [this message]
2004-09-30 16:53 mff

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