On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Frothy Bits <neuralpancake@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,

Absolutely brand new to Haskell.  Taking ghci v7.10.2 out for a spin, and I find I get inconsistent return values for succ n:

ghci> succ 3.14
4.1400000000000001  

for example instead of the expected 4.14

This is pretty standard for today's floating point hardware in CPU's.  It's not a Haskell thing.  It comes up in C and Python too - that is, in pretty much anything that uses hardware floating point.

If you need precision, try an integral type or a rational.

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Dan Stromberg