Decimal

Decimal numbers with variable precision

https://github.com/PaulJohnson/Haskell-Decimal

LTS Haskell 23.18:0.5.2
Stackage Nightly 2025-04-19:0.5.2
Latest on Hackage:0.5.2

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Paul Johnson
Maintained by [email protected]
This version can be pinned in stack with:Decimal-0.5.2@sha256:83dd16a1c0737fd35fdb1088af36e1a53034e75090e3f0d4ad32296f1a35a13b,1711

Module documentation for 0.5.2

Depends on 2 packages(full list with versions):
base, deepseq

Haskell-Decimal

Fixed-precision decimal numbers, where the precision is carried with the numbers at run-time.

The Decimal type is mainly intended for doing financial arithmetic where the number of decimal places may not be known at compile time (e.g. for a program that handles both Yen and Dollars) and the application must not drop pennies on the floor. For instance if you have to divide $10 between three people then one of them has to get $3.34.

The number of decimal places in a value is represented as a Word8, allowing for up to 255 decimal places. Functions preserve precision. Addition and subtraction operators return a result with the precision of the most precise argument, so 2.3 + 5.678 = 7.978. Multiplication and division use whatever precision is necessary up to 255 decimal places.

QuickCheck Specification

Data.Decimal includes a set of QuickCheck properties which act as both tests and a formal specification. To run the tests do:

cabal configure –enable-tests cabal build cabal test

or

stack test

Changes

Version 0.2.1

  • Fixed base dependency.

  • Put test suite under cabal test

Version 0.2.2

  • Minor fixes to allow compilation under other versions of GHC.

Version 0.2.3

  • Added instance of NFData from Control.DeepSeq, and hence a dependency on the deepseq package, thanks to Jeff Shaw (shawjef3 at msu.edu).

Version 0.3.1

  • Added Typeable, Fractional and RealFrac instances.

  • Multiplication now returns an exact result, increasing precision if necessary.

These changes alter the API. Hence the increment to the major version number.

Thanks to Alexey Uimanov (s9gf4ult at gmail.com).

Version 0.4.1

  • Improved Read instance. Now handles "1.2e3" and reads only returns a single parse.

  • Corrected documentation.

  • Added Enum instance.

  • decimalConvert now returns a Maybe value. The old version has been renamed to “unsafeDecimalConvert.

Version 0.5.1

  • Bankers’ Rounding implemented in “roundTo”. This rounds values ending in “5” to the nearest even number, in line with the behaviour of “Prelude.round”. This is potentially a breaking change for software that depends on the old behavior, so the minor version number has been bumped.

  • Added a stack.yaml file.

  • Corrected documentation.

  • Read instance now handles leading spaces properly.

  • Fixed compiler warnings in test suite.

  • Added roundTo' which allows for truncate, floor and ceiling behaviour when rounding.