<div dir="ltr">Thank you all! I am considering defining a String -> String function now.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Kim-Ee Yeoh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ky3@atamo.com" target="_blank">ky3@atamo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="im"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:14 PM, yi lu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zhiwudazhanjiangshi@gmail.com" target="_blank">zhiwudazhanjiangshi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>What I need is just as much number of digits as possible. If I can hold as many digits of pi, i.e. 3.1415926535... as possible and save it in a String, it will be perfect!<span><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Perhaps you had some experience with a computer algebra system (Maple, Mathematica, etc.) and was expecting similar behavior?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
While it's certainly possible to build it on top of Haskell, these kind of floating-point features aren't available out of the box. Haskell provides only fixed-bitwidth floating point.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As Oscar recommended, you probably want a String -> String function, say<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">> toEnglish "1.239402874"<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
"one point two three nine four zero blah blah"<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-- Kim-Ee</div>
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