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Re: [Json] Limitations on number size?

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Wed, 10 July 2013 01:26 UTC

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John Levine scripsit:

> Do we actually know?  Or is it just whatever number format a library's
> underlying language happens to provide?

I would be very surprised if existing libraries did *not* handle the
entire range of IEEE doubles (other than Inf, -Inf, NaN, and -0.0)
at the very least.

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