On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Patrick Perry <patpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > ieee is a Haskell library for dealing with IEEE floating numbers. It > was originally written to make testing with floating point values less > painful. The library provides an "approximate equality" type class, > AEq, with approximate equality operator "~==". One property of "~==" > is that nearby floating point numbers are deemed equivalent, so that, > for example, "1 ~== 1.00000001" evaluates to True.
Given that IEEE is actually a standards body and they have many standards, wouldn't it be more appropriate to call this library ieee754? Note: The library itself seems cool, thanks for publishing it regardless of name! Jason _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
