| daniel added a comment. |
In T117808#3479499, @Smalyshev wrote:I think the goal is both. If we have correct data that is hardly useable because it is incomprehensible, it's almost as bad as having no data. We could use combined displays (hovers? titles? any other JS/CSS tricks?) to enable seeing both compact and full forms, but right now I feel big values are rather hard to work with.
I'm not saying we shouldn't make things look pretty. I'm saying we shouldn't make *wrong* things look pretty my guessing.
+/-0 was *never* assumed automatically. If it's there, it's there because someone put it there. And it was always possible to specify precision.
If we support compact notation based on precision, that will make the impact of entering the "wrong" precision more obvious. I think this is a good thing, not something to be avoided.
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