You are right! I hope to input a number, for example 123, and output its text "one hundred and twenty-three". So, for 1.23456789012345678901, I want the result is "one point two three four five six ...(something omitted)". I can define a funciton, say "toText", to preform this action. In ghci, I can use like this. Prelude>toText 123.45 "one hundred and twenty-three point four five" However, in this function, I have to read this number as String(originally a number, now "123"), and make it to words(String) like "one two three". But for a float number, it will not work very well. Prelude>toText 1.23456789012345678901 "(a truncated answer)" This confuses me! Yi On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sep 18, 2013 2:15 PM, "yi lu" <zhiwudazhanjiangshi@gmail.com> wrote:
In fact, I am not looking for some way to convert a float 0.75 to 3%4.
Your reply is helpful!
What I need is just as much number of digits as possible. If I can hold as many digits of pi, i.e. 3.1415926535... as possible and save it in a String, it will be perfect!
I think something is still missing from your description.
If you want to store the digits of pi in a string then why not use a string?
Oscar
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