[Haskell-beginners] truncate results depend on strict/lazy

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Oscar Benjamin
<oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com>wrote:

> What do you mean when you say that floating point can't be capture in
> a simple functional description?
>

*You* try describing the truncation behavior of Intel FPUs (they use 80
bits internally but only store 64, for (double)). "Leaving aside" isn't an
option; it's visible in the languages that use them.

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