Re: [Haskell-cafe] Debugging Newton's method for square roots

Vraj Mohan wrote:

This works for several examples that I tried out but goes into an infinite loop for my_sqrt 96. How do I go about debugging this code in GHC or Hugs?

(The equivalent code is well-behaved on MIT Scheme)

There was some excellent advice in the other responses, but I thought it worth mentioning that your Haskell code converges if you step up from Float -> Float to Double -> Double.