[Haskell-cafe] How to implement the mean function

[aditya siram]

What compiler errors are you getting?
-deech

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Ruohao Li <liruohao at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I just started learning some Haskell. I want to implement a mean function to
> compute the mean of a list. The signature of the function is:
> mean :: (Num a, Fractional b) => [a] -> b
> But when I implement this simple function, the compiler keep whining at me
> on type errors. I know this is wrong:
> mean xs = sum xs / length xs
> But how to get it right? Thanks.
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