[Haskell-cafe] Re: Debugging Newton's method for square roots

Jón Fairbairn jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
Sun Oct 15 11:13:42 EDT 2006


I wrote:

> Vraj Mohan <r.vrajmohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > (The equivalent code is well-behaved on MIT Scheme)
> 
> Is it? Is there equivalent code to “my_sqrt :: Float ->
> Float”? (that might be pertinent).

By which I mean "HINT". (And one of the places to look for
bugs is where you have hand coded a constant without due
consideration of the implications).

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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
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