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@author Alisdair Sullivan <alisdairsullivan@yahoo.ca>
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@copyright 2010 Alisdair Sullivan
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@version really, really beta
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@title nicefloats
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@doc nicefloats is an implementation of the algorithms for pretty printing floating point numbers detailed in "Printing FLoating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately" by Burger & Dybvig
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== contents ==
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<ol>
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<li>{@section introduction}</li>
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<li>{@section features}</li>
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<li>{@section usage}</li>
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<li>{@section contributing}</li>
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</ol>
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== introduction ==
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nicefloats quickly and accurately outputs decimal representations of floating point numbers that, when read back (with `erlang:list_to_float/1' or similar), result in the same floating point value
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== features ==
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nicefloats currently only outputs the shortest possible representation of floating point numbers in base 10.
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== usage ==
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`nicefloats:format(Float).'
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== contributing ==
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nicefloats is available on <a href="http://github.com/talentdeficit/nicefloats">github</a>. users are encouraged to fork, edit and make pull requests
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