[Haskell-cafe] Bug with [Double]

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Dmitry Olshansky wrote:

> It seems that I saw something like this in Cafe recevtly. But I am not sure...
> In GHC 6.12.1 (Platform 2010 on Windows Vista) I have

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> Any comments?

The problem you point out is not a problem with Haskell, but a problem
with the whole concept of floating point arithmetic as implemented on
all modern CPUs. See:

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

You would have got similar problems with just about any language running
on the same hardware.

Erik
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