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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntactic detail

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:39:26PM +0100, oliver wrote:
[...]
> For example you might have a startvalue of an algorithm and the staring value
> for a certin behaviour is
>   3.36639926549992
> but your colleague uses
>   3.36639296549992
> 
> For clarification one could write:
>   3.36639926549992 vs.
>   3.36639296549992
> 
> or better
> 
>   3.36639_92_6549992 vs.
>   3.36639_29_6549992
[...]

Or, of course izt would be possible to write:

  3.366_399_265_499_92
  vs.
  3.366_392_965_499_92

which would be the case with all-three-letters distannce.

This is less clear for clarifying the difference.

Ciao,
  Oliver