Re: [Haskell-cafe] 'Scientific' loses significant digits

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Alex wrote:

Hi:

Does anyone know why is this true?

((fromJust . readMaybe) "1.00000000" :: Scientific) == ((fromJust . readMaybe) "1" :: Scientific)

Hi Alex, This is intended behavior. Scientific's primary use case is as an intermediate type, to be converted to e.g. Double or Integer later. So there's no need for it to account for significant digits.

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