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To: beginners@haskell.org From: es@ertes.de Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 17:17:18 +0200 Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] making function problem (chapter 6 of Programming in Haskell)
Roelof Wobben
wrote: Maybe this :
x ^ 0 = 1 x ^ y = x * (y-1)
No, that's wrong. Don't try guessing things, because that will bring you nowhere with Haskell.
But at least you are getting closer to the idea of solving things through algebraic rules.
Greets, Ertugrul
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Im not guessing. Im trying to understand what you mean by exponation rules. As far as I can imagaging it cannot be done the same way as you described the sum problem. Roelof