[Haskell-cafe] Little errors in number calculations

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+hs at mega-nerd.com
Sat Nov 14 16:21:24 EST 2009


Abby Henríquez Tejera wrote:

> I understand that error may (and will) happen in floating point,

Yes, explained here:

    http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

> but
> it surprises me that they do so easily, and, above all, the difference
> between GHC and Hugs. Does someone know why does this difference
> occur?

It looks like the two implementations just print floating  point
numbers with differing amounts of precision (or rather number of
digits).

Erik
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