Jc3s5h added a comment.

In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95425#1602377, @daniel wrote in part:

>




> We could just drop rounding, but that would lead to //false precision// when 
> applying unit conversion. So we could apply rounding only if we do conversion 
> - but that would be even more confusing, don't you think? And of course, if 
> we do conversion, round trips will never work.


Whether rounding only on conversion would be confusing depends on the 
background of the reader. The casual reader will be confused by many 
significant digits (or apparently significant digits) no matter what we do. The 
reader with a rigorous quantitative background such as scientists and engineers 
will expect the original value would have been entered correctly, and will 
recognize the inherent data loss involved in conversion. I think such a reader 
would expect us to preserve precision when some cases will require such 
preservation to properly present the original value (even if badly entered 
values will look bad). Such a user will expect us to round on conversion 
because that is customary among people with a strong quantitative background.

Preserving the input when there is no conversion also helps to bring 
badly-entered original values to the attention of editors who can then fix them.


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