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Re: [Json] WGLC comment about numeric values

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 11 October 2013 21:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] WGLC comment about numeric values
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On Oct 11, 2013, at 23:08, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:

> A JSON number which is outside those bounds, such as 1E400 or 3.141592653589793238462643383279, may indicate potential interoperability problems since it suggests that the software which created it it expected greater magnitude or precision than is widely available.

Strike "which is outside those bounds".

> A JSON number such as 1E400 or 3.141592653589793238462643383279 may indicate potential interoperability problems since it suggests that the software which created it it expected greater magnitude or precision than is widely available.

(I don't want to restart the 1.1 discussion :-)

Grüße, Carsten

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