Awesomely complete response. Thank you. Henning Thielemann wrote:
There are several things that are inconvenient in the numeric part of Haskell 98 Prelude. As always I suggest a look at alternative numeric class hierarchies, like NumericPrelude:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/Mathematics#Ty...
I definitely will. Henning Thielemann wrote:
Is your approach more like symbolic calculation or more like a representation for computable reals?
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/Mathematics#Nu...
Computable reals, specifically continued fraction representation. I know I'm reinventing the wheel here (I was using an OCaml implementation called ContFrac as a guide to the algorithms) but I'm just playing with this as a vehicle for learning Haskell. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Why-does-the-class-called-%22Real%22-support-only-rati... Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.