docs(whatsnew): add entry in whatsnew

Author: Alvaro-Kothe

doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst

@@ -1076,6 +1076,7 @@ I/O
 - Bug in :meth:`read_csv` raising ``TypeError`` when ``index_col`` is specified and ``na_values`` is a dict containing the key ``None``. (:issue:`57547`)
 - Bug in :meth:`read_csv` raising ``TypeError`` when ``nrows`` and ``iterator`` are specified without specifying a ``chunksize``. (:issue:`59079`)
 - Bug in :meth:`read_csv` where the order of the ``na_values`` makes an inconsistency when ``na_values`` is a list non-string values. (:issue:`59303`)
+- Bug in :meth:`read_csv` with ``engine="c"`` reading large numbers as a string. Now reads them as floats. (:issue:`51295`)
 - Bug in :meth:`read_csv` with ``engine="pyarrow"`` and ``dtype="Int64"`` losing precision (:issue:`56136`)
 - Bug in :meth:`read_excel` raising ``ValueError`` when passing array of boolean values when ``dtype="boolean"``. (:issue:`58159`)
 - Bug in :meth:`read_html` where ``rowspan`` in header row causes incorrect conversion to ``DataFrame``. (:issue:`60210`)