From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@bee.hiwaay.net>
To: "Zeno Lee" <zeno.lee@earthlink.net>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] weird floating poing behavior on windows
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 14:03:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404022003.i32K3YZu1106590@bee.hiwaay.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "Zeno Lee" <zeno.lee@earthlink.net> of "Fri, 02 Apr 2004 14:39:43 EST." <008101c418ea$3ff43780$6401a8c0@xp>
In message <008101c418ea$3ff43780$6401a8c0@xp>,
"Zeno Lee" writes:
: Can anyone tell me what's going on here? Is this a known issue on
: windows?
:
: C:\>ocaml
: Objective Caml version 3.07+2
: # 0.2 *. 0.26;;
: - : float = 0.052000000000000005
: # 0.8 *. 0.7 *. 0.8;;
: - : float = 0.44799999999999995
It's a known issue on digital computers, i.e., with finite-precision
arithmetic. See "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About
Floating-Point Arithmetic":
http://www.validlab.com/goldberg/paper.pdf
Greg
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-02 13:41 [Caml-list] failwith, raise and type inference Paul Guyot
2004-04-02 13:49 ` Frederic van der Plancke
2004-04-02 13:56 ` Paul Guyot
2004-04-02 13:51 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-04-02 13:59 ` Correnson Loïc
2004-04-02 14:09 ` Luc Maranget
2004-04-02 19:39 ` [Caml-list] weird floating poing behavior on windows Zeno Lee
2004-04-02 20:03 ` Greg Bacon [this message]
2004-04-02 20:07 ` David Brown
2004-04-02 20:31 ` Zeno Lee
2004-04-02 20:50 ` Pierre Weis
2004-04-02 22:01 ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-02 21:58 ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-02 20:28 ` [Caml-list] failwith, raise and type inference Pierre Weis
2004-04-05 22:52 ` Ker Lutyn
2004-04-06 1:07 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-04-06 5:23 ` Issac Trotts
2004-04-06 15:15 ` skaller
2004-04-06 1:15 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-04-06 7:05 ` skaller
2004-04-06 11:29 ` Eric C. Cooper
2004-04-09 7:18 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-04-09 7:32 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-04-09 8:03 ` skaller
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