Float.to_charlist
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to_charlist
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Specs
Returns a charlist which corresponds to the text representation of the given float.
It uses the shortest representation according to algorithm described in "Printing Floating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately" in Proceedings of the SIGPLAN '96 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation.
Examples
iex> Float.to_charlist(7.0)
'7.0'