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Floating point numbers

1 Question

Why do floating point numbers behave so strange? Why is

Prelude> compare (0/0) (0/0)
GT
Prelude> (0/0) > (0/0)
False

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2 Answer

This has nothing to do with Haskell, but exclusively with the underlying implementation of floating point numbers in your system.

See for instance:

Haskell-Cafe on 0/0 > 1 == False
Haskell-Cafe on Why purely in haskell?

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