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to_yaml

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to_yaml(opts = {}) public

This emits the number without any scientific notation. This is better than self.to_f.to_s since it doesn’t lose precision.

Note that reconstituting YAML floats to native floats may lose precision.

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/big_decimal/conversions.rb, line 20
  def to_yaml(opts = {})
    return super if defined?(YAML::ENGINE) && !YAML::ENGINE.syck?

    YAML.quick_emit(nil, opts) do |out|
      string = to_s
      out.scalar(YAML_TAG, YAML_MAPPING[string] || string, :plain)
    end
  end

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