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#Type_class_hierarchies > 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#Number_representations > 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-rationals%2C-and-not-all-reals--tf3862820.html#a10951802 Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
