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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients eric.smith, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, sndrtj, sobolevn, tim.peters
Date 2021-11-04.17:14:58
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> whether Decimal should extend beyond the specification in this case

We already go way beyond the original specification for string formatting. The spec doesn't go further than specifying to-scientific-string and to-engineering-string, neither of which even get into limiting precision.
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