[Hugs] #82: Not a Number

[Hugs]

#82: Not a Number
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  Reporter:  guest    |       Owner:  nobody
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  closed
  Priority:  minor    |   Milestone:        
 Component:  hugs     |     Version:  200609
Resolution:  invalid  |    Keywords:        
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Changes (by ross):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid

Comment:

 That is to be expected: factorial 35 is to big to fit in a Float.  You'd
 get up to 170 if you used Double instead (and old versions of Hugs used
 the C double type internally for both types).  But a better approach would
 be to use another scanl to build the terms of the series incrementally as
 Floats or Doubles, before the scanl you're using to get partial sums.

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