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diff --git a/haskell/haskell-scientific/README b/haskell/haskell-scientific/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..aad3a8cc71 --- /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 |