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| author | Jose Lopes <jabolopes@google.com> | 2014-01-17 09:08:26 +0700 |
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| committer | Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org> | 2014-01-29 23:21:04 -0600 |
| commit | 5b544f3b3042f8dc070e858a3cd4968d04660c9d (patch) | |
| tree | 7e123b2a089f74ee5de49b9b8f2110c65630f32a /haskell/haskell-scientific/README | |
| parent | 3194b89f9d5830f84cbb2a37653281388886b768 (diff) | |
haskell/haskell-scientific: Added (precision floating-point).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'haskell/haskell-scientific/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | haskell/haskell-scientific/README | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/haskell/haskell-scientific/README b/haskell/haskell-scientific/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..aad3a8cc712d --- /dev/null +++ b/haskell/haskell-scientific/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Arbitrary-precision floating-point numbers represented using +scientific notation. + +A Scientific number is an arbitrary-precision floating-point number +represented using scientific notation. + +A scientific number with coefficient c and base10Exponent e +corresponds to the Fractional number: fromInteger c * 10 ^^ e + +Its primary use-case is to serve as the target of parsing floating +point numbers. Since the textual representation of floating point +numbers use scientific notation they can be efficiently parsed to a +Scientific number. + +After uninstalling, run this command to unregister the package from +the ghc package database: ghc-pkg recache |