Convert floating point number to a certain precision, and then copy to string

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00:50 Accepted answer (Score 242)
02:07 Answer 2 (Score 76)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1526...

Accepted answer links:
[preferred]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtype...
[this link on string formatting from the Python documentation]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/string....
[this link will suffice and has info on the various flags]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtype...
[see more information here]: https://docs.python.org/3.6/reference/le...

Answer 2 links:
[f-string]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.h...
[What's new in Python 3.6]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.h...
[PEP official documentation]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0498/
[Python official documentation]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexi...
[Really good blog post - talks about performance too]: https://cito.github.io/blog/f-strings/
[image]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/azP5N.png

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