So, I discovered that simple continued fractions are supposed to be
spiffy lazy lists and thought I'd bang out some continued fraction code.
But then I discovered ContFrac.hs and couldn't really better it. Of
course, I went about trying to actually do things relying on their
laziness, and discovere
On 2004 October 09 Saturday 15:33, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> So, I discovered that simple continued fractions are supposed to be
> spiffy lazy lists and thought I'd bang out some continued fraction code.
> But then I discovered ContFrac.hs and couldn't really better it. Of
> course, I went abo
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 09:53:16PM -0400, Scott Turner wrote:
> I tried using continued fractions in a "spiffy lazy list" implementation a
> while ago. Never got them working as well as expected.
> Evenutally I realized that calculating with lazy lists is not as
> smooth as you might expect.
> Fo
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| William Lee Irwin III
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| On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 09:53:16PM -0400, Scott Turner wrote:
| > I tried using continued fractions
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:48:27AM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> If you are interested in arbitrary precision arithmetic using continued
> fractions, you may want to check out the work of David Lester. And
> Peter Potts et al. Just type "exact real arithmetic" into Google.
That's where I go
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 09:53:16PM -0400, Scott Turner wrote:
> Evenutally I realized that calculating with lazy lists is not as
> smooth as you might expect. For example, the square root of 2 has a
> simple representation as a lazy continued fraction, but if you
> multiply the square root of 2 by
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 12:33:53PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> So, I discovered that simple continued fractions are supposed to be
> spiffy lazy lists and thought I'd bang out some continued fraction code.
> But then I discovered ContFrac.hs and couldn't really better it. Of
> course, I w
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 12:33:53PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> So, I discovered that simple continued fractions are supposed to be
>> spiffy lazy lists and thought I'd bang out some continued fraction code.
>> But then I discovered ContFrac.hs and couldn't really better it. Of
>> course,
