Re-apply patch from ff8924ce16e58f to dev manual

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diff --git a/docs/content/manual/manual.yml b/docs/content/manual/manual.yml
index 894f2ef1..3431b3a7 100644
--- a/docs/content/manual/manual.yml
+++ b/docs/content/manual/manual.yml
@@ -304,11 +304,37 @@ sections:
           program can be a useful way of formatting JSON output from,
           say, `curl`.
 
+          An important point about the identity filter is that it 
+          guarantees to preserve the literal decimal representation 
+          of values. This is particularly important when dealing with numbers 
+          which can't be losslessly converted to an IEEE754 double precision 
+          representation.
+
+          jq doesn't truncate the literal numbers to double unless there
+          is a need to make arithmetic operations with the number.
+          Comparisions are carried out over the untruncated big decimal 
+          representation of the number.
+
+          jq will also try to maintain the original decimal precision of the provided
+          number literal. See below for examples. 
+
         examples:
           - program: '.'
             input: '"Hello, world!"'
             output: ['"Hello, world!"']
 
+          - program: '. | tojson'
+            input: '12345678909876543212345'
+            output: ['"12345678909876543212345"']
+
+          - program: 'map([., . == 1]) | tojson'
+            input: '[1, 1.000, 1.0, 100e-2]'
+            output: ['"[[1,true],[1.000,true],[1.0,true],[1.00,true]]"']
+
+          - program: '. as $big | [$big, $big + 1] | map(. > 10000000000000000000000000000000)'
+            input: '10000000000000000000000000000001'
+            output: ['[true, false]']
+
       - title: "Object Identifier-Index: `.foo`, `.foo.bar`"
         body: |
 
@@ -524,6 +550,16 @@ sections:
       expression that takes an input, ignores it, and returns 42
       instead.
 
+      Numbers in jq are internally represented by their IEEE754 double 
+      precision approximation. Any arithmetic operation with numbers, 
+      whether they are literals or results of previous filters, will 
+      produce a double precision floating point result.
+
+      However, when parsing a literal jq will store the original literal
+      string. If no mutation is applied to this value then it will make
+      to the output in its original form, even if conversion to double 
+      would result in a loss. 
+
     entries:
       - title: "Array construction: `[]`"
         body: |
@@ -655,6 +691,18 @@ sections:
       try to add a string to an object you'll get an error message and
       no result.
 
+      Please note that all numbers are converted to IEEE754 double precision 
+      floating point representation. Arithmetic and logical operators are working
+      with these converted doubles. Results of all such operations are also limited 
+      to the double precision. 
+
+      The only exception to this behaviour of number is a snapshot of original number 
+      literal. When a number which originally was provided as a literal is never
+      mutated until the end of the program then it is printed to the output in its 
+      original literal form. This also includes cases when the original literal 
+      would be truncated when converted to the IEEE754 double precision floating point
+      number.
+
     entries:
       - title: "Addition: `+`"
         body: |