[Haskell] sizeFM type

Wolfgang Jeltsch wolfgang at jeltsch.net
Mon Apr 26 18:55:03 EDT 2004


Am Montag, 26. April 2004 17:06 schrieb Philippa Cowderoy:
> [...]

> To ask a silly question, is Int defined as 32 bits or is it defined in a
> similar vein to C's int?

I think it is defined to cover at least the numbers from
    -(2 ^ 27) + 1
to
    2 ^ 27 - 1.
So its exact range is implementation/platform dependent but sufficient for 
many/most problems.

Wolfgang



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