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

[Lennart Augustsson]

But IEEE can be run with projective infinity in which case there is only one
of them.

On Nov 27, 2007 7:41 PM, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:

> 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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