Requested precision for external decimal text #
The digit grid and decade carry depend only on an exact decimal value. A caller supplies the signed magnitude-to-integer rounding function; this module makes no choice of source format, exponent bounds, cohort policy, or exception handling. It applies equally to decimal datums and terminating decimal expansions of dyadics.
Requested precision has no width cap. Zero uses adjusted exponent zero, hence
quantum 1-p at precision p. Sign preservation includes signed zero.
Carry into a new decade without adding an extra significant digit.