Oh, the second.
17e-4200000000000000 is represented in Gmp.mpq as something with many many decimals. It will allocate a lot of memory.
/ Mirar
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2004-02-07 15:44: Subject: sscanf and Gmp.mpq
Hm. What obstacles might be involved in the second? (I did not assume I could stand on floats as an intermediary form in parsing here; was that your line of thought?)
/ Johan Sundström (Achtung Liebe!)