Arbitrary precision reals?

Nils Anders Danielsson nad@cs.chalmers.se
Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:00:16 +0100 (MET)


On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Tom Pledger wrote:

> I don't know whether arbitrary precision reals have been done in
> Haskell, but here's one of the issues...

There is a "Haskell implementation of exact real arithmetic using Linear
Fractional Transformations", see

  http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ae/exact-computation/

for implementations and a bunch of papers. (The web server does not seem
to respond right now, but the pages are cached by Google.)

/NAD