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I am in need of an absolute value function for floats in OCaml and the core language doesn’t seem to possess one, so I wrote the following:
let absF (f:float) = if f > 0.0 then f else (f *. -1.0);; which seems to work for positives but not for negatives, citing:
This expression has type float -> float but is here used with type int
What is the error in my logic?
When you type
OCaml interprets it as
i.e. as a subtraction. Instead, do