On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:25 AM, john skaller
<skal...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> The abstract properties of numbers are defined here:
> http://felix-lang.org/$/usr/local/lib/felix/felix-latest/lib/std//algebraic.flx
> as a mathematician you will understand this code, despite the fact it
> is using type classes. It's just defining groups and rings. The "Float"
> variant is there because floating point math isn't associative.
> Its the best I could think of to mean "approximately" since there's
> no universal way to say that for floats.

ieee floating point isn't ever going to be real math, right? is it
dangerous to try to pretend it kinda is? :-)

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