compensated-0.7.1: README.markdown

compensated
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This package provides a form of compensated arithmetic that lets you perform many operations on chains of doubles at higher precision.

In particular addition, multiplication, etc. on a `Compensated Double` is done with twice as many bits of `significand` as on a raw `Double`.

This construction is designed so that it can be iterated.

This was forked from the [analytics](http://github.com/analytics/analytics.git) repository after repeated requests.

Work still needs to be done to properly support most `Floating` operations, but everything below that level of the numeric hierarchy should work.

Contact Information
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Contributions and bug reports are welcome!

Please feel free to contact me through github or on the #haskell IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

-Edward Kmett