possible bug

John Mann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.hugs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello all. I am writing a simple program to compute
pi, using the well-known and inefficient series:

pi ~= 4(1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 + ...

and the program is:

pie :: Int -> Double
pie n
    | n==1 = 4
    | n==1005 = 2/fromInt n - 4/(fromInt n - 2) +
pie(n-4)
    | otherwise = pie(n-4) + 4/fromInt n - 4/(fromInt
n - 2)

and this gives, using Hugs Version November 2002, 

Main> pie 1005
3.14159

Now, if I change the number of terms to be about 10
times as many, by changing the program to:

pie :: Int -> Double
pie n
    | n==1 = 4
    | n==10005 = 2/fromInt n - 4/(fromInt n - 2) +
pie(n-4)
    | otherwise = pie(n-4) + 4/fromInt n - 4/(fromInt
n - 2)

I get the LESS-accurate result:

Main> pie 10005
3.1416

This would seem to be a bug, but I am not sending it
to the bug list in case I'm doing something wrong with
Haskell or Hugs, or am mistaken with my program. Any
comments? Thanks.
John Mann

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"I'd rather be debugging...." - Anon

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