Explain purpose of floating-point representation section

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## Floating-point representation ## Floating-point representation
Ryan Juckett has written a detailed history of round-trip-stable string formatting algorithms for floating-point numbers. We probably don't need to know much about how to represent floating-point numbers as human-readable strings, because we'll probably choose a serialization framework that does it for us. These articles are useful background, though.
Ryan Juckett has written a detailed history of faithful string formatting algorithms for floating-point numbers.
> Ryan Juckett.["Printing Floating-Point Numbers"](https://www.ryanjuckett.com/printing-floating-point-numbers/) (2014). > Ryan Juckett.["Printing Floating-Point Numbers"](https://www.ryanjuckett.com/printing-floating-point-numbers/) (2014).