Language-Independent Arithmetic

22 Jun 2003

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From the Haskell 98 Report, sec. 6.4:
"The default floating point operations defined by 
    the Haskell  Prelude do not  conform to current 
    language independent arithmetic (LIA) standards.
    These standards require considerably more complexity
    in the numeric structure and have thus been 
    relegated to a library."

Is this true? Which library?

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA