Describe the bug

I'm trying to issue the gh project item-edit command to set the value of an item field to a floating point value. The command looks like this:

gh project item-edit --project-id $projectId --id $itemId --field-id $fieldId --number 69.84 

The command fails with this error:

GraphQL: Number values cannot exceed 8 decimal places (updateProjectV2ItemFieldValue)

which would be helpful if the value I passed had more than 8 decimal places, but it doesn't.

Affected version

Please run gh version and paste the output below.

gh version 2.65.0 (2025-01-06)

Steps to reproduce the behavior

• Create a project a define a number field in it.
• Add an item to the project
• Figure out the project ID, item ID, and field ID (no small feat).
• Issue the command above.

Expected vs actual behavior

The update should succeed when the value provided is valid.

Logs

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[mikekistler@macbookpro] ~>export GH_DEBUG=true
[mikekistler@macbookpro] ~>gh project item-edit --project-id $projectId --id $itemId --field-id $fieldId --number 69.84

• Request at 2025-01-30 21:57:28.393059 -0600 CST m=+0.122595376
• Request to https://api.github.com/graphql
• Request took 379.058041ms
  GraphQL: Number values cannot exceed 8 decimal places (updateProjectV2ItemFieldValue)
  [mikekistler@macbookpro] ~>