[Haskell-beginners] Translating imperative algorithms to Haskell

[Tom Tobin]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Tom Tobin <korpios at korpios.com> wrote:
> It's like asking to express a square in terms of a circle -- you can
> come up with a circle that has the same area

Heh, it was pointed out to me that you actually *can't* do this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle

You can get a circle that has *approximately* the same area, but never
exactly.  Curse my lack of math background!  ^_^