Hi Liyang,
| On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:39:48AM -0800, Mark P Jones wrote:
| > Hugs uses single precision by default because the implementation
| > using double precision relies on a hack whose behavior is not
| > assured in any way by the C language in which it is implemented.
|
| I found this
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:39:48AM -0800, Mark P Jones wrote:
> Hugs uses single precision by default because the implementation
> using double precision relies on a hack whose behavior is not
> assured in any way by the C language in which it is implemented.
I found this in src/unix/configu
Hi Dave,
| Note that I'd recommend getting some clarification about this from either
| the current hugs team or Mark Jones (who are probably reading this list),
| as I can vaguely recall a couple of times over the last few years where
| Mark Jone has said `Hugs should not be used for serious nume
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Liyang Hu wrote:
> > From a bit of browsing the code, it appears that setting
> > USE_DOUBLE_PRECISION will increase the precision of both Float
> > and Double types.
Note that I'd recommend getting some clarification about this from either
the current hugs team or Mark Jone
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:43:32AM +, Liyang Hu wrote:
> 'fraid I've been too spoilt by Debian, haven't built anything from
> source in ages ... I'll notify Hugs' package maintainer and see if I
> can convince him/her to apply this ...
No trouble at all; I feel this should be the default as w
Evening,
Thanks for the near-instantaneous reply!
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:59:02PM -0500, Scott Turner wrote:
> Welcome. Hope you find it as fun and useful as I.
I'm sure I will! My wee adventure into the world of functional
programming has been nothing short of delightful so far, and there's
On Saturday 12 January 2002 17:35, you wrote:
> (I'm just a new convertee to the ways of Functional Programming, so
> please go easy on me! ^_^;;)
Welcome. Hope you find it as fun and useful as I.
> Why is it that `Double's in Hugs only seem to have the same
> precision as a `Float'? I've some c
Hi,
(I'm just a new convertee to the ways of Functional Programming, so
please go easy on me! ^_^;;)
Why is it that `Double's in Hugs only seem to have the same
precision as a `Float'? I've some code here that only iterates a few
hundred times, and the amount of accuracy lost is getting a bit
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