[Haskell-beginners] How to convert a float or double number into a string?

[Stephen Tetley]

It you don't mind truncation from the outset there is Data.Fixed.


On 18 September 2013 17:16, David McBride <toad3k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Show is not truncating anything.  Show never had those digits to read from
> in the first place.  The problem is that once you convert to floats or
> doubles, the number will be truncated.  They do not have infinite
> precision.  You cannot pass a literal float and have it go to infinite
> precision.
>
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