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From: Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE>
To: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, caml-bugs@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Problem with the old Num implementation of ocaml (fwd) (PR#1989)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:46:04 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401061038015.32649@katrin.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0E17D5E-38BF-11D8-80E6-00039310CAE8@inria.fr>


On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Damien Doligez wrote:

> This bug is in fact in the ML part of the Num library, which is common
> to both the old and new Num implementations.  I think it dates back to
> Caml Light.
(...)
> This "nondeterminism" comes from using a Nat.nat with an uninitialised
> digit, using whatever was already in memory at that address.

Many thanks for your prompt action. (By the way, ocaml is a very nice tool 
for certain kinds of calculations in Superstring/M-Theory - see 
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312262 .)

-- 
regards,               tf@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de              (o_
 Thomas Fischbacher -  http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf  //\
(lambda (n) ((lambda (p q r) (p p q r)) (lambda (g x y)           V_/_
(if (= x 0) y (g g (- x 1) (* x y)))) n 1))                  (Debian GNU)

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-06  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-19 10:17 [Caml-list] Problem with the old Num implementation of ocaml (fwd) Thomas Fischbacher
2003-12-27 22:55 ` [Caml-list] Problem with the old Num implementation of ocaml (fwd) (PR#1989) Damien Doligez
2003-12-30 11:25   ` [Caml-list] Problem with the Num implementation Christophe Raffalli
2004-01-06  9:46   ` Thomas Fischbacher [this message]

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