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[docs] minor changes in the manual text
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Leonid S. Usov committed Nov 14, 2018
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say, `curl`.
An important point about the identity filter is that it
guarantees to preserve the literal representation of values.
This is particularly important when dealing with numbers
which otherwise get truncated to an IEEE754 double precision
guarantees to preserve the literal decimal representation
of values. This is particularly important when dealing with numbers
which can't be losslessly converted to an IEEE754 double precision
representation.
jq doesn't truncate the literal numbers to double unless there
is a need to make arithmetic operations with the number.
Comparisions are carried out over the untruncated big decimal
representation of the number.
jq will also try to maintain the original precision of the provided
jq will also try to maintain the original decimal precision of the provided
number literal. See below for examples.
examples:
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