<longdescription>
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
parsed to a @Scientific@ number.
</longdescription>
<use>
- <flag name="bytestring-builder">Provide the
- Data.ByteString.Builder.Scientific module (requires bytestring >= 0.10).</flag>
+ <flag name="bytestring-builder">
+ Provide the Data.ByteString.Builder.Scientific
+ module (requires bytestring >= 0.10).
+ </flag>
</use>
<upstream>
<remote-id type="github">basvandijk/scientific</remote-id>