At 16:15 +0100 98/08/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Phil Wadler:
>> I believe that David A. Turner (of Miranda fame) has an EPSRC
>> grant to develop arbitrary precision real libraries in Haskell.
>
>Is "arbitrary precision" the same as true real numbers --- or does
>it just mean "for this run of the program I would like to use 10^5
>digits" ?
My guess is that it means that the libraries are for real, but they deal
with arbitrary precision floating numbers.
Hans Aberg
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