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by tjonker 3715 days ago
I'm having a bit of trouble parsing this, but Ion decimal values are not "infinite precision". Every decimal has a very specific, finite precision. It's a standard "coefficient and exponent" model, with no specification-enforced limit on either.
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The idea is each number is adequately precise in that additional precision would mean additional useless trailing zeros.