I always thought that he who compares floating point numbers for equality was acting in tangent of reason...
-- Jeff On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Mark Wotton<mwot...@gmail.com> wrote: > he who compares floating point numbers for equality is in a state of sin. > > mark > > On 22/08/2009, at 5:00 AM, Roberto wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> There is a mistake is logBase: >> >> $ ghci >> GHCi, version 6.10.4: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help >> Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. >> Loading package integer ... linking ... done. >> Loading package base ... linking ... done. >> Prelude> logBase 10 10 >> 1.0 >> Prelude> logBase 10 100 >> 2.0 >> Prelude> logBase 10 1000 >> 2.9999999999999996 <--- eeeerrgghhhh! >> Prelude> logBase 10 10000 >> 4.0 >> >> >> My host is a Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 (lenny) with the following GHC >> packages: >> >> ii ghc6 6.10.4-1 >> ii ghc6-doc 6.10.4-1 >> ii libghc6-mtl-dev 1.1.0.2-7+b1 >> ii libghc6-utf8-string-dev 0.3.5-1+b1 >> ii libghc6-x11-dev 1.4.5-6 >> rc libghc6-x11-doc 1.4.2-1 >> ii libghc6-x11-xft-dev 0.3-3+b3 >> ii libghc6-xmonad-contrib-dev 0.8.1-3+b3 >> rc libghc6-xmonad-contrib-doc 0.8-2 >> ii libghc6-xmonad-dev 0.8.1-5 >> >> Regards! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe