Re: Standard Prelude - Floating Class

2001-10-16 Thread George Russell
I wrote > I'm afraid that I have very little faith in the numerical analysis > expertise of the typical Haskell implementor, so I think it is dangerous > to give them an incorrect "default" implementation. I am reminded of > the notorious ASCII C (very)-pseudo-random number generator . . . Dylan

Re: Standard Prelude - Floating Class

2001-10-16 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: > Did Joe Fasel include this consciously? If yes, > my respect - already almost infinite, is even bigger now). I'm pretty sure he did, but he can speak for himself. I know he discussed these things with his numerical collegues when designing the prelude. Look at this d

Re: Standard Prelude - Floating Class

2001-10-16 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
George Russell wants to terminate the discussion with Dylan Thurston who corrects some inadequacies of his previous posting : > > ... Surely sinh x is at least 1/2 of exp x, leaving only a > > very narrow range for this to happen. Behaviour of sinh x near 0 is > > more important, unless I'm miss