[Haskell-cafe] Re: Just for a laugh...

[Andrew Coppin]

Jon Fairbairn wrote:
> "David House" <dmhouse at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> On 31/05/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> If you're bored... can you come up with a solution to this?
>>>       
>> Try using floatToDigits:
>> http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Numeric.html#v%3AfloatToDigits
>>
>> "floatToDigits takes a base and a non-negative RealFloat number, and
>> returns a list of digits and an exponent."
>>     
>
> I think you also need floatRadix and floatDigits.
>   

Note that the challenge asks for the "internal" bitmap representation of 
an IEEE double-precision integer - not the mathematical binary 
expansion. (In particular, things like Infinity and NaN have special bit 
sequences.)

Did I mention that this is a silly challange yet?