Calabash - How to avoid Scientific Notation for large numbers . . ?

I am extracting content from a relational database (MySQL) for analysis 
using xProc, but one little wrinkle I had not for seen is Calabash seems 
to want to give me large numbers (over a million) using scientific 
notation which is a pit of a problem when I am using those numbers to 
manage the pagination from the relational database. In other words, I am 
grabbing 5,000 rows at a time and slowly working my way up through a 
table with 57 million rows, but calabash starts giving me numbers such 
as "2.1E6" which the relational database can not handle.

I have created a working around by building the large numbers as strings 
(e.g. concat('2100','000') but that adds some unpleasant complexity.

Grateful for any hints or insights,

Christopher