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From: Berke Durak <berke@altern.org>
To: Post Office!~/sentmail <fjr6b@cms.mail.virginia.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Integer to floating point conversion errors
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:33:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011111143319.A14950@gogol.zorgol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.32.0111091836540.16016-100000@config.mail.Virginia.EDU>; from fjr6b@cms.mail.virginia.edu on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:39:58PM -0500

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:39:58PM -0500, Post Office!~/sentmail wrote:
> I am getting negative results when I convert large integers to floating
> point.  This happens on both i386 and my G4 laptop with OCaml 3.02.  The
> code in question is this:
> 
>                         method raw = (seed <- (seed*mult+incr)mod modu);
>                                         float seed /. float modu

The operator ``mod'' does not necessarily return positive values (depending
on your platform) :

        Objective Caml version 3.03 ALPHA
# (-1) mod 5;;
- : int = -1
--
Berke
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-11 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-09 23:39 Post Office!~/sentmail
2001-11-11 13:33 ` Berke Durak [this message]
2001-11-11 15:35   ` Post Office!~/sentmail
2001-11-11 16:34     ` Remi VANICAT

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