Floats are fragile, and every value in this vocabulary is already a string, so
decimal strings keep the wire to one value encoding rather than adding a
second. The recommendation this reverses had that backwards.
What it costs is a comparison rule, and that is where the danger sits: compared
as text, ten is less than nine. The cut owes a canonical decimal form and a
numeric comparison, both pinned, and it no longer owes anyone a sentence about
where exactness runs out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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