diff --git a/deps/nicefloats/LICENSE b/deps/nicefloats/LICENSE
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+%% The MIT License
+
+%% Copyright (c) 2010 Alisdair Sullivan <alisdairsullivan@yahoo.ca>
+
+%% Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+%% of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+%% in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+%% to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+%% copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+%% furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+%% The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+%% all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+%% THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+%% IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+%% FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+%% AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+%% LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+%% OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+%% THE SOFTWARE.
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diff --git a/deps/nicefloats/README.markdown b/deps/nicefloats/README.markdown
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+nicefloats
+==========
+
+an erlang implementation of nice decimal representations of floating point numbers, based on "Printing FLoating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately" by Burger & Dybvig
+
+
+### usage ###
+
+`nicefloats:format(Float)`        
+
+
+### installation ###
+
+`make` or `./rebar compile` to build nicefloats
+
+`make test` or `./rebar eunit` to run tests
+
+
+### notes ###
+
+this project was originally a part of [jsx][1], and remnants of that projects history may linger. try to ignore it.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[1]: http://www.github.com/talentdeficit/jsx/
diff --git a/deps/nicefloats/doc/overview.edoc b/deps/nicefloats/doc/overview.edoc
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+@author Alisdair Sullivan <alisdairsullivan@yahoo.ca>
+@copyright 2010 Alisdair Sullivan
+@version really, really beta
+@title nicefloats
+@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
+
+
+== contents ==
+
+<ol>
+    <li>{@section introduction}</li>
+    <li>{@section features}</li>
+    <li>{@section usage}</li>
+    <li>{@section contributing}</li>
+</ol>
+
+
+== introduction ==
+
+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
+
+
+== features ==
+
+nicefloats currently only outputs the shortest possible representation of floating point numbers in base 10.
+
+== usage ==
+
+`nicefloats:format(Float).'
+
+== contributing ==
+
+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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diff --git a/deps/nicefloats/ebin/nicefloats.app b/deps/nicefloats/ebin/nicefloats.app
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+{application, nicefloats,
+[
+    {description, "'nice' decimal representations of floating point numbers"},
+    {vsn, "0.9"},
+    {modules, [
+        nicefloats
+    ]},
+    {registered, []},
+    {applications, [
+        kernel,
+        stdlib
+    ]},
+    {env, []}
+]}.
diff --git a/deps/nicefloats/makefile b/deps/nicefloats/makefile
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+compile:
+	./rebar compile
+    
+test: force
+	./rebar eunit
+
+clean:
+	./rebar clean
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+%% uncomment to get verbose output from test suite
+%% {eunit_opts, [verbose]}.
diff --git a/deps/nicefloats/src/nicefloats.erl b/deps/nicefloats/src/nicefloats.erl
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+%% The MIT License
+
+%% Copyright (c) 2010 Alisdair Sullivan <alisdairsullivan@yahoo.ca>
+
+%% Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+%% of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+%% in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+%% to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+%% copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+%% furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+%% The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+%% all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+%% THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+%% IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+%% FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+%% AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+%% LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+%% OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+%% THE SOFTWARE.
+
+
+%% conversion of floats to 'nice' decimal output. erlang's float implementation 
+%%   is almost but not quite ieee 754. it converts negative zero to plain zero 
+%%   silently, and throws exceptions for any operations that would produce NaN 
+%%   or infinity. as far as I can tell that is. trying to match against NaN or 
+%%   infinity binary patterns produces nomatch exceptions, and arithmetic 
+%%   operations produce badarg exceptions. with that in mind, this function 
+%%   makes no attempt to handle special values (except for zero)
+
+
+-module(nicefloats).
+
+-export([format/1]).
+
+
+-ifdef(TEST).
+-include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").
+-endif.
+
+
+-spec format(Float::float()) -> string().
+
+format(Float) when is_float(Float) ->
+    nice_decimal(Float).
+
+
+%% algorithm from "Printing FLoating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately" by 
+%%   Burger & Dybvig
+nice_decimal(0.0) -> "0.0";
+nice_decimal(Num) ->
+    {F, E} = extract(<<Num:64/float>>),
+    {R, S, MP, MM} = initial_vals(F, E),
+    K = ceiling(math:log10(abs(Num)) - 1.0e-10),
+    Round = F band 1 =:= 0,
+    {Dpoint, Digits} = scale(R, S, MP, MM, K, Round),
+    if Num >= 0 -> format(Dpoint, Digits)
+        ; Num < 0 -> "-" ++ format(Dpoint, Digits)
+    end.
+
+
+extract(<<_:1, 0:11, Frac:52>>) -> {Frac, -1074};
+extract(<<_:1, Exp:11, Frac:52>>) -> {Frac + (1 bsl 52), Exp - 1075}.
+
+
+ceiling(X) ->
+    Y = trunc(X),
+    case X - Y of 
+        Z when Z > 0 -> Y + 1 
+        ; _ -> Y 
+    end.
+
+
+initial_vals(F, E) when E >= 0, F /= 1 bsl 52 ->
+    BE = 1 bsl E,
+    {F * BE * 2, 2, BE, BE};    
+initial_vals(F, E) when E >= 0 ->
+    BE = 1 bsl E,
+    {F * BE * 4, 4, BE * 2, BE};
+initial_vals(F, E) when E == -1074; F /= 1 bsl 52 ->
+    {F * 2, 1 bsl (-E + 1), 1, 1};
+initial_vals(F, E) ->
+    {F * 4, 1 bsl (-E + 2), 2, 1}.
+
+
+scale(R, S, MP, MM, K, Round) ->
+    case K >= 0 of
+        true -> fixup(R, S * pow(10, K), MP, MM, K, Round)
+        ; false -> 
+            Scale = pow(10, -1 * K),
+            fixup(R * Scale, S, MP * Scale, MM * Scale, K, Round)
+    end.
+
+
+fixup(R, S, MP, MM, K, true) ->
+    case (R + MP >= S) of
+        true -> {K + 1, generate(R, S, MP, MM, true)}
+        ; false -> {K, generate(R * 10, S, MP * 10, MM * 10, true)}
+    end;
+fixup(R, S, MP, MM, K, false) ->
+    case (R + MP > S) of
+        true -> {K + 1, generate(R, S, MP, MM, true)}
+        ; false -> {K, generate(R * 10, S, MP * 10, MM * 10, true)}
+    end.
+
+
+generate(RT, S, MP, MM, Round) ->
+    D = RT div S,
+    R = RT rem S,
+    TC1 = case Round of true -> (R =< MM); false -> (R < MM) end,
+    TC2 = case Round of true -> (R + MP >= S); false -> (R + MP > S) end,
+    case TC1 of
+        false -> case TC2 of
+                false -> [D | generate(R * 10, S, MP * 10, MM * 10, Round)]
+                ; true -> [D + 1]
+            end
+        ; true -> case TC2 of
+                false -> [D]
+                ; true -> case R * 2 < S of
+                    true -> [D]
+                    ; false -> [D + 1]
+                end
+            end
+    end.
+
+
+%% this is not efficient at all and should be replaced with a lookup table 
+%%   probably
+pow(_B, 0) -> 1;
+pow(B, E) when E > 0 -> pow(B, E, 1).
+
+pow(B, E, Acc) when E < 2 -> B * Acc;
+pow(B, E, Acc) when E band 1 == 1 -> pow(B * B, E bsr 1, B * Acc);
+pow(B, E, Acc) -> pow(B * B, E bsr 1, Acc).
+
+
+format(0, Digits) ->
+    format(Digits, ignore, ".0");
+format(Dpoint, Digits) when Dpoint =< length(Digits), Dpoint > 0 ->
+    format(Digits, Dpoint, []);
+format(Dpoint, Digits) when Dpoint > 0 ->
+    Pad = Dpoint - length(Digits),
+    case Pad of
+        X when X > 6 -> 
+            format(Digits, 1, []) ++ "e" ++ integer_to_list(Dpoint - 1)
+        ; _ -> 
+            format(Digits ++ [ 0 || _ <- lists:seq(1, Pad)], Dpoint, [])
+    end;
+format(Dpoint, Digits) when Dpoint < 0 ->
+    format(Digits, 1, []) ++ "e" ++ integer_to_list(Dpoint - 1).
+
+format([], 0, Acc) ->
+    lists:reverse("0." ++ Acc);
+format([], ignore, Acc) ->
+    lists:reverse(Acc);
+format(Digits, 0, Acc) ->
+    format(Digits, ignore, "." ++ Acc); 
+format([Digit|Digits], Dpoint, Acc) ->
+    format(Digits, 
+        case Dpoint of ignore -> ignore; X -> X - 1 end, to_ascii(Digit) ++ Acc
+    ).
+
+
+to_ascii(X) -> [X + 48].    %% ascii "1" is [49], "2" is [50], etc...
+
+
+
+%% eunit tests
+-ifdef(TEST).
+    
+nice_decimal_test_() ->
+    [
+        {"0.0", ?_assert(nice_decimal(0.0) =:= "0.0")},
+        {"1.0", ?_assert(nice_decimal(1.0) =:= "1.0")},
+        {"-1.0", ?_assert(nice_decimal(-1.0) =:= "-1.0")},
+        {"3.1234567890987654321", 
+            ?_assert(
+                nice_decimal(3.1234567890987654321) =:= "3.1234567890987655")
+        },
+        {"1.0e23", ?_assert(nice_decimal(1.0e23) =:= "1.0e23")},
+        {"0.3", ?_assert(nice_decimal(3.0/10.0) =:= "0.3")},
+        {"0.0001", ?_assert(nice_decimal(0.0001) =:= "1.0e-4")},
+        {"0.00000001", ?_assert(nice_decimal(0.00000001) =:= "1.0e-8")},
+        {"1.0e-323", ?_assert(nice_decimal(1.0e-323) =:= "1.0e-323")},
+        {"1.0e308", ?_assert(nice_decimal(1.0e308) =:= "1.0e308")},
+        {"min normalized float", 
+            ?_assert(
+                nice_decimal(math:pow(2, -1022)) =:= "2.2250738585072014e-308"
+            )
+        },
+        {"max normalized float", 
+            ?_assert(
+                nice_decimal((2 - math:pow(2, -52)) * math:pow(2, 1023)) 
+                    =:= "1.7976931348623157e308"
+            )
+        },
+        {"min denormalized float", 
+            ?_assert(nice_decimal(math:pow(2, -1074)) =:= "5.0e-324")
+        },
+        {"max denormalized float", 
+            ?_assert(
+                nice_decimal((1 - math:pow(2, -52)) * math:pow(2, -1022)) 
+                    =:= "2.225073858507201e-308"
+            )
+        }
+    ].
+
+-endif.
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