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by anonymoushn 933 days ago
This is still broken in jq 1.7 for sufficiently long exponents
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From a quick test it looks like it supports exponents up to 9 digits long (i.e. 1.0e999999999), which, frankly, seems pretty reasonable; it's hard for me to imagine a use case where you'd want to represent numbers larger than that.