tracker issue : CF-3695627

Problem Description:
SerializeJSON turns strings that look like scientific notation into floats. 
In our case those strings happen to be Stock Numbers. Changing them to floats is breaking our application.
Furthermore, I would be surprised if anyone that is using CF would find this a desired behavior. If someone WERE passing around a "string" that WAS in scientific notation, I DO NOT think the would want it CHANGED when serialized to JSON.

Steps to Reproduce:
<cfoutput>
	<cfset str = "1234E-1" />
	<p>#SerializeJSON({str: str})#</p><!--- No space --->
	<p>#SerializeJSON({str: str & " "})#</p><!--- Space at the end --->
	<p>#SerializeJSON({str: " " & str})#</p><!--- Space at the beginning--->
</cfoutput>

Actual Result:
{"STR":123.4}    // WRONG
{"STR":123.4}    // WRONG
{"STR":" 1234E-1"} // CORRECT (But, I don't want spaces BEFORE my string.)

Expected Result:
{"STR":"1234E-1"}  // No space
{"STR":"1234E-1 "}  // Space at the end
{"STR":" 7373E-1"}  // Space at the beginning

Any Workarounds:
Only ones that are too awful to mention.

----------------------------- Additional Watson Details -----------------------------

Watson Bug ID:	3695627

External Customer Info:
External Company:  
External Customer Name: cf_chris
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External Test Config: My Hardware and Environment details:

Windows 7 (SP1) 64-bit

ColdFusion 10 - 10,0,12,286680

Java Version - 1.7.0_17

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