Dylan Thurston:
> For those who aren't aware: working with logs base 2 internally will
> be very much faster than logs base 10, since the numbers are stored
> internally in a base-2 representation. (Note that 'show' converts to
> base 10, which involves a large number of divisions in the easy
> a
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:32:39PM +0200, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:07:00PM -0700, Greg Buchholz wrote:
> > -- Inspired from Mr. Howard Oakley. Might not qualify as "good",
> > -- but with this function I get log10(x)=849.114419903382
> > ...
>
> For those who aren't awa
Hi all,
Inspired by a bit of hackery today, I managed to find a nice way to
re-define Prelude functions in modular way. There may be some
functions in the Prelude that you would like to redefine: in this
example, we redefine the "lookup" function, which normally has a type
signature of
look