[Haskell-cafe] Int vs Integer

[Daniel Carrera]

Thanks for the info, and the link.

I probably should have guessed the Double vs Float one. I did program in 
C a while ago...

Cheers,
Daniel.

Jared Updike wrote:
> Int is for bounded values -2**32 to 2**32 (I think... maybe 2**-31 and
> 2**31 or less if it's boxed?) based on the underlying machine
> representation. Integer is unbounded (arbitrary precision, i.e.
> 7489571948579148758174534 is a valid Integer). Double is for floating
> point values corresponding to C doubles, in hardware (on 32 bit
> machines, 64 bit entities) and Floats are half that precision, i.e. 32
> bits on 32 bit machines, corresponding to C floats.
> 
> see  http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/basic.html#sect6.3 and
> http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/basic.html#sect6.4 for more info.
> 
>  Jared.
> 
> On 12/18/05, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I found a good Haskell tutorial (second link on the Tutorials column)
>>(now that I know how to run the programs in it). I have a question.
>>What's the difference between the types Int and Integer? Likewise,
>>what's the difference between the types Float and Double? Are those just
>>synonims?
>>
>>Thanks for the help.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Daniel.
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