The properFaction part is correct. So I posted the whole code, since "isInteger" should accept any reasonable incoming types. Well, in this one situation, it does not. And I cannot figure out why....
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Jimmy Hartzell <j...@shareyourgifts.net> wrote: > Did you test the properFraction-based code in isolation? If code is > broken, it's important to figure out which part of it is broken. Also, > this function is not divided into constituent parts, but is a long unruly > mess. Dividing it into parts would make it much much more readable, and > you would then be able to test the parts individually. > > Jimmy > >> The original code is >> givenSum num = map (\a -> >> let l = (sqrt $ fromIntegral (a * a + 2 + 2 * >> num)) - (fromIntegral a) in >> case properFraction l of >> (_, 0) -> >> True >> _ -> >> False >> ) $ take num [1..] >> :t l is (Floating a) => a >> Well, in ghci >> *Main> givenSum 10 >> [False,False,False,False,False,False,False,False,False,False] >> >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Thomas DuBuisson >> <thomas.dubuis...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds >>> <magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> It never matches to (_, 0.0).... >>>> I mean >>>> case properFraction l of >>>> (_, 0) -> l >>>> _ -> 0 -- always goes here. >>> >>> Odd, it works fine for me. >>> >>> f x = >>> case properFraction x of >>> (_,0) -> True >>> _ -> False >>> >>> >>> *Main> f 5 >>> True >>> *Main> f 5.5 >>> False >>> *Main> f 4.0 >>> True >>> *Main> f 4.00000001 >>> False >>> >>> >>> Thomas >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 竹密岂妨流水过 >> 山高哪阻野云飞 >> > > > -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe