[Haskell-cafe] 'Scientific' loses significant digits

[Chris Wong]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Alex <alex323 at gmail.com> 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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