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See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202642, the value is "0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000539116" but is displayed as "0.0000000000 second"
Another example is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122894 where the value is "0.0000000000000000000000000000000006626070040" but it is displayed as "0.0000000000 joule-second"
It looks like it truncates anything after the 10th decimal place, meaning that in cases like these, the displayed value is wrong and completely useless, you can see neither the significant digits nor the number of decimal places.
I think it would make sense to switch to scientific notation after a certain number of decimal places, i.e. the second example would be 6.626070040 × 10^(-34) (the -34 should be superscript, but I can't figure out how to do that in Phabricator). It would not only be easier to read because it's shorter and you don't have to count the number of decimal places, it would also match how those values are normally written.
Cc: Aklapper, Nikki, D3r1ck01, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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