From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id BAA06129; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 01:45:01 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA06140 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 01:44:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from gentoo.malaquias.no-ip.org (233-130-030.xdsl-dinamico.ctbcnetsuper.com.br [200.233.130.30]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hB60ilr15523 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 01:44:51 +0100 (MET) Received: by gentoo.malaquias.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id AA3D86736D; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:44:29 -0200 (BRST) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:44:29 -0200 From: romildo@uber.com.br To: caml-list@inria.fr Cc: mgiv2595@terra.com.br Subject: [Caml-list] float type with better precision than the default Message-ID: <20031206004429.GA22530@gentoo.malaquias.no-ip.org> Mail-Followup-To: caml-list@inria.fr, mgiv2595@terra.com.br Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; romildo:01 creal:01 mlgmp:01 romildo:01 malaquias:01 computac:01 malaquias:01 iceb:01 ufop:01 ouro:01 preto:01 ocaml:01 federal:97 float:02 float:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hello. A friend of mine needs a type for float numbers with better precision than the precision offered in the default float type. He also needs efficiency in his application. He is currently looking at the CReal library that comes with mlgmp. Unfortunatly he is finding that it is ineficient for his application. What he needs is something like a float type with twice the precision as of the default float type from OCaml. Can anyone help with this and indicate a possible solution? Regards, Romildo -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias romildo@uber.com.br Departamento de Computação malaquias@iceb.ufop.br Univ. Federal de Ouro Preto http://uber.com.br/romildo ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners