ah that is exactly what I wanted .. thanks Daniel.<div>Sunil.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Daniel Fischer <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:daniel.is.fischer@googlemail.com">daniel.is.fischer@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wednesday 10 August 2011, 20:42:05, Sunil S Nandihalli wrote:<br>
&gt; hmm.. I do agree that taking elements larger than say 2-billion is<br>
&gt; insane .. however, I have no intention of doing that. But the thing is<br>
&gt; the value I am getting is of type Integer but it actually very small<br>
&gt; and I am unable to pass it as is. So is there a way to convert a value<br>
&gt; of type Integer to Int ? This might be obvious.. But I am a newbie to<br>
&gt; the whole Haskell thing ...<br>
<br>
</div>Use fromInteger or fromIntegral<br>
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&gt;<br>
&gt; Thanks,<br>
&gt; Sunil.<br>
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