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From: Sean McLaughlin <seanmcl@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: float rounding
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:25:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89957A27-4B6A-4FCF-A425-1468ECFA8B62@cmu.edu> (raw)

Hello,

   I'm using Ocaml for an interval arithmetic application.  I"m  
curious about
what the Ocaml parser/compiler does to float constants.  May I assume
that for any constant I enter, eg. 3.1415... (for N digits of pi), that
the compiler will give me a closest machine representable number?
i.e., if I bound a constant by the previous and next floating point  
value to
that given me by the compiler,
will it always be the case that my original (mathematical) constant  
lies in that interval?

Thanks,

Sean


             reply	other threads:[~2006-09-30 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-30 18:25 Sean McLaughlin [this message]
2006-10-01 12:44 ` [Caml-list] " Florent Monnier
2006-10-01 13:36 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2006-10-01 16:36 ` Xavier Leroy
2006-11-23 23:00   ` David Monniaux
2006-10-03 13:41 ` Christophe Raffalli
2006-10-03 19:59 ` Christophe Raffalli
2006-10-03 21:05   ` Olivier Andrieu
2006-11-26  1:51     ` David Monniaux

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