[Haskell-cafe] Floating phi, round and even Fibonnaci numbers

[Brian L. Troutwine]

> You are welcome. Are you talking about http://projecteuler.net/ ? I have
> been experimenting with various ways of learning Haskell, tackling an
> interesting set of mathematical problems sounds good.

I am. It's turned out to be quite a fun approach and the one that seems to be 
the most effective, at least for me.

On Thursday 12 July 2007 07:50:42 you wrote:
> Brian,
>
> You are welcome. Are you talking about http://projecteuler.net/ ? I have
> been experimenting with various ways of learning Haskell, tackling an
> interesting set of mathematical problems sounds good.
>
> Best Regards,
> Robert
>
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 00:06, Brian L. Troutwine wrote:
> > Hello Robert,
> >
> > Thanks for the comments. The lazy list with Double phi embedded does
> > indeed begin to deviate, at the 81st Fibonacci number, if I'm not
> > mistaken. Another fellow in this thread calculated the deviation points
> > for Double, Float and CReal.
> >
> > By way of further explanation, I'm writing up various approaches and
> > solutions to the problems posed at Project Euler, discussing the various
> > defects to each approach, comparing the runtimes of solutions and,
> > hopefully, deriving interesting tidbits of math along the way. The
> > project was begun to improve my Haskell ability by exercising it in as
> > many ways on a single idea as possible. I'd not thought of the algorithm
> > you pointed out in SICP and will now happily include it. Thanks.
> >
> > Brian