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Formatter for arbitrary-precision numbers #57

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ntwilson opened this issue Aug 22, 2020 · 0 comments
Open

Formatter for arbitrary-precision numbers #57

ntwilson opened this issue Aug 22, 2020 · 0 comments
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good first issue First-time contributors who are looking to help should work on these issues. type: documentation Improvements or additions to documentation.

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Formatting numbers larger than +/- 1e20 (or smaller than +/- 1e-20) can give a wrong answer because of floating point precision problems.
I don't think there's any call to actually implement a formatter for arbitrary-precision numbers (like purescript-decimals in this library, but it might be nice to offer some guidance documentation on how to implement a formatter for something like that.
@thomashoneyman thomashoneyman added help wanted good first issue First-time contributors who are looking to help should work on these issues. type: documentation Improvements or additions to documentation. labels Aug 22, 2020
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