[Haskell-cafe] Mystery of an Eq instance

Tom Ellis tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk
Fri Sep 20 19:00:01 CEST 2013


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 06:34:04PM +0200, Stijn van Drongelen wrote:
> Please find yourself a copy of "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know
> About Floating-Point Arithmetic" by David Goldberg, and read it. It should
> be very enlightening. It explains a bit about how IEEE754, pretty much the
> golden standard for floating point math, defines these precision rules.

Ah, this is definitely the best advice in the thread.



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