# Suppress scientific notation - VCF file read

**URL:** <https://discuss.hail.is/t/suppress-scientific-notation-vcf-file-read/1617>\
**Category:** Hail Query & hailctl\
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/suppress-scientific-notation-vcf-file-read/1617 "2020-09-03T06:50:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Aks](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Aks)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/suppress-scientific-notation-vcf-file-read/1617/1 "2020-09-03T06:50:27Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I am reading a VCF file and would like to suppress the scientific notation.

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/hail/original/1X/7fa8f9867def6c3a7dc7fcee234d254878d5ec93.png)

I am interested to see the VCF file content as is. meaning things like 0.03 etc

I know in python pandas we have an option to set disable to scientific notation.

However, does Hail matrix table while reading or through any operation can we turn off the scientific notation?

Can help me, please?

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**Author:** ![Aks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Aks](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Aks)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/suppress-scientific-notation-vcf-file-read/1617/2 "2020-09-04T11:20:31Z")

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can someone help me with this?

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**Author:** ![johnc1231](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.hail.is/johnc1231/32/286_2.png) [@johnc1231](https://discuss.hail.is/u/johnc1231)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/suppress-scientific-notation-vcf-file-read/1617/3 "2020-09-04T13:17:28Z")

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At this time, there’s no option to do that when calling `show`. That’s a reasonable thing to want though, and we should add it at some point.