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From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: onlyclimb <onlyclimb@163.com>, Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>,
	caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] time function
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 00:51:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021223085146.GA6833@opus.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021223081934.GA1549@iliana>

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 09:19:34AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:

> > - : float = 1040659299.94
> > it seems that  gettimeofday() is for centi-second,  :-)

> It may just be a coincidence that your call to gettimeofday fall on a
> full centi-second, and thus the last decimal was not shown.

Actually, it's just the default resolution of the float pretty-printer
in the top-level.

# Printf.printf "%.30f\n" (Unix.gettimeofday ());;
1040633442.482807993888854980468750000000
- : unit = ()

Will give you many more digits than are actually meaningful.

Dave Brown
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-23  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-23 15:18 onlyclimb
2002-12-23  7:38 ` Chris Hecker
2002-12-23 16:05   ` onlyclimb
2002-12-23  8:19     ` Sven Luther
2002-12-23  8:51       ` David Brown [this message]
2002-12-23 17:13       ` onlyclimb

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