Monthly Archives: February 2019

What’s the right way to QuickCheck floating-point routines?

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Brent

I got a lot of great comments on my previous post about finding roots of polynomials in Haskell. One particularly promising idea I got from commenter Jake was to give up on the idea of having no external dependencies (which, … Continue reading →

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Worstsort

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Brent

Thanks for the responses to my previous post about finding roots of polynomials; I now have some new avenues to explore. But today I want to write about something completely different. I recently stumbled across this fun paper by Miguel … Continue reading →

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Finding roots of polynomials in Haskell?

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Brent

tl;dr: There are several Haskell packages one can use to find an individual root of a function on a certain interval. But I’ve had less luck finding a suitable package for finding all the roots of a given polynomial. This … Continue reading →

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