Re: [Haskell-beginners] strange behaviour : computing lowest divisor

On Wednesday 29 December 2010 10:59:53, Abhijit Ray wrote:

Thanks, that seems to have fixed it.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Lyndon Maydwell wrote:

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Try with Integer rather than Int. Might be an overflow issue...

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*Main> ld 278970415063349480483707695

Yes, that number is between 2^87 and 2^88, as an Int, it's typically one of 206297903 = 7*37*796517 (32-bit Ints) or -9158009321667437777 = -7*13*15015953*670203649 (64-bit Ints).