# CSV ruins scientific notation

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-ruins-scientific-notation/25835
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** dataframes, csv
**Created:** [June 29, 2019, 8:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-ruins-scientific-notation/25835 "2019-06-29T08:39:43Z")
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### Author: ![steph\_de\_paris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/steph_de_paris/32/7780_2.png) [@steph\_de\_paris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/steph_de_paris)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-ruins-scientific-notation/25835/11 "2019-07-17T17:52:41Z")

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See a solution (not really “smart”) proposed in [New behaviour due to an update of the package CSV when using CSV.write - #8 by steph\_de\_paris](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-behaviour-due-to-an-update-of-the-package-csv-when-using-csv-write/26442/8)

I just use a cast Float 2 String to keep the scientific notation used in the DataFrames.

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