Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fractional sqrt
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Henning Thielemann wrote:
there is already an implementation of continued fractions for approximation of roots and transcendent functions by Jan Skibinski: http://darcs.haskell.org/numeric-quest/Fraction.hs
I wrote:
Wow, nice. Now - how was I supposed to have found that?
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Perhaps one of you can add this to the libraries-and-tools page? http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries_and_tools/
I added a new page for the Numeric Quest library, and added it to the Mathematics category. (Should it be in any other category?) I also updated the references to Numeric Quest on the Mathematics and Physics page.
Great work! However I would not throw away the links to the Internet archive because the pages stored there link to the original HTML pages which are lost. It's cumbersome to navigate through the archived pages. The Darcs repository at cvs.haskell.org is no official update by Jan Skibinski - I set up that repository to simplify further development. I added the keyword "continued fractions" to the Wiki page so the module can be discovered by other people.
I wrote:
I added a new page for the Numeric Quest library... http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Numeric_Quest
I also updated the references to Numeric Quest on the Mathematics and Physics page. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries_and_tools/Mathematics
Henning Thielemann wrote
I would not throw away the links to the Internet archive
From there, it is easy to navigate with one click to any of the author's original work still available in
For modules that were previously mentioned on the Mathematics page and not re-hosted in your darcs repo, I left the links as they were. For modules that are in the repo, the original version can always be obtained from the repo. In addition, there is a link on the Numeric Quest page to the author's main Haskell page in the Internet Archive. the Archive, including all of the modules that are also in the darcs repo. Perhaps I should add a note to that effect. I intentionally removed the direct links to the Archive from the Mathematics page for modules that are now in your repo. I estimate that people clicking from there are more likely to be lead astray than to be helped. Do you think it is important to have a separate link for each repo module to the Internet Archive? If so, they can be added to the Numeric Quest page.
The Darcs repository at cvs.haskell.org is no official update by Jan Skibinski - I set up that repository to simplify further development.
OK - I'll add a note to that effect.
I added the keyword "continued fractions" to the Wiki page so the module can be discovered by other people.
Good, thanks. -Yitz
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