[GHC] #9534: IEEE Standard 754 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic by Prof. W. Kahan, UCB

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#9534: IEEE Standard 754 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic by Prof. W. Kahan,
UCB
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             Component:  Test Suite  |          Version:  7.8.3
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Comment (by carter):

 I think the simplest answer would be to change how we define compare to
 use the IEEE total order
 it'd still be *weird* on NANs, but it'd be commutative again.

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