[Haskell-cafe] Why aren't Float and Double Bounded?

Isaac Dupree isaacdupree at charter.net
Tue Nov 27 14:41:59 EST 2007


Henning Thielemann wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Jason Dusek wrote:
> 
>> Among numeric types, it seems that only integer types are Bounded.
> 
> Maybe because IEEE format supports Infinity?

therefore, maxBound is Infinity and minBound negative infinity?

Isaac


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