note that this project was started at a time when float_to_list exhibited poor behaviour but this has since been fixed, rendering this project rather pointless. it remains up for historical reasons, but you should probably not be using it
shortest string representations of erlang floats
copyright 2010 alisdair sullivan
nicedecimal is released under the terms of the [MIT][MIT] license
to build nicedecimal, use rebar
nicedecimal only exports one function. format/1 takes an erlang float as an argument and returns a printable string representation of that float that, when intepreted by another erlang process (via list_to_float, most likely), returns the same float