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Re: [Json] Limitations on number size?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 05 June 2013 16:08 UTC

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On Jun 5, 2013, at 18:05, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:

> Superfluous. The spec is perfectly clear on number representations.

This text is about number representations only on the surface (and that part can be dialed down).

It may be completely superfluous to you and me, but I have run into enough people who simply don't know what is being said there and make the wrong conclusions.

Grüße, Carsten

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