How To Install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7. ghc-scientific is Arbitrary-precision floating-point numbers represented using

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7.

What is ghc-scientific

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 Its primary use-case is to serve as the target of parsing floating point numbers. Since the textual representation of floating point numbers use scientific notation they can be efficiently parsed to a ‘Scientific’ number.

We can use yum or dnf to install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-scientific.

Install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ghc-scientific using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-scientific

Install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ghc-scientific using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-scientific

How To Uninstall ghc-scientific on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ghc-scientific package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ghc-scientific

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-scientific on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.