Why does Excel treat long numeric strings as scientific notation even after changing cell format to text

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/413226/w...

Question links:
[How can you make Excel 2007 stop formatting large numbers as scientific notation?]: https://superuser.com/questions/37975/ho...
[Is this Excel behaviour with a large hex number expected?]: https://superuser.com/questions/206771/i...

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