Support floating point numbers

[Brian Myers]

[Brian Myers]

Random collection of reading material on topic...

• rust-lang/rust#24556
• https://github.com/dtolnay/dtoa
• https://github.com/lifthrasiir/rust-strconv/
• https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/florian-loitsch/printf.pdf

[nlam1170]

@bcmyers any update on the timeline for float support?

[Justin Sunseri]

kinda making me sad this isn't better by now given all the popularity of the crate.

[Stanislav]

Dont waste time to get this library work for floats with hacks like
fract() / trunk() and
(x * 1000).round() / 1000
and copysign etc etc.

I'll try this https://docs.rs/format_num/latest/format_num/ instead

[Azzam S.A]

@enomado any luck with format_num?
I am also looking for solution that works with f64.

[Stanislav]

@azzamsa looks like I came to thousands crate.

Standard float format, then separate digits as chars.