On 9/5/07, Tomi Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there. I'm a teacher of Maths and am working my way through the Euler > Project problems for fun. I have mostly been using Basic, but have read up > about Haskell and think it looks like a sensible way to solve many of the > problems. > > I see others have already answered your immediate question; however, I thought I'd throw in some general comments. Project Euler is indeed a great way to learn some Haskell, but you will certainly run into problems with the numeric types (as you already have). Haskell is very picky about numeric types (for good reason!), and until you get used to it, it can be a big pain and a source of some confusion. I highly recommend that you read about type classes, and you may also want to read something like http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Converting_numbers. As someone else already mentioned, asking questions in the #haskell IRC channel on irc.freenode.netis also an excellent way to learn things and get past error messages and things like this which are probably simple, but you just can't figure out.
Hope this helps, -Brent
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