Re: [Haskell-cafe] floating-point comparison (was haskell gsoc proposal for richer numerical type classes and supporting algorithms)

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Doug Burke doug_j_bu...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 4/8/10, Gregory Crosswhite gcr...@phys.washington.edu wrote: From: Gregory Crosswhite gcr...@phys.washington.edu On a tangental note, I've considered coding up a package with an AlmostEq typeclass

[Haskell-cafe] floating-point comparison (was haskell gsoc proposal for richer numerical type classes and supporting algorithms)

--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Gregory Crosswhite gcr...@phys.washington.edu wrote: From: Gregory Crosswhite gcr...@phys.washington.edu On a tangental note, I've considered coding up a package with an AlmostEq typeclass that allows one to test for approximate equality.  The problem is that different