On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 17:36 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello Steve, > > Sunday, August 23, 2009, 5:27:48 PM, you wrote: > > ghci>> roundN 697.04157958254996 10 > > 697.0415795826 > > afair, double has 13 decimal digits precision, so your > 697.04157958254996 represented by another value. you just looking for > miracles > > I think its 16 or 17 (significant not decimal digits). Its a miracle that Python achieves! But Haskell does not. Python uses doubles too, and for certain operations it uses arbitrary precision floating point (I think).
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