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Re: [Json] I-JSON Topic #5: Numbers

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 19 May 2014 22:54 UTC

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On 20 May 2014, at 00:00, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) <jhildebr@cisco.com> wrote:

> 4e-324

That is a bad number for interop not because it is out of range, but because it is not something you can get from converting a binary64 into decimal, so it is somewhat arbitrary what happens on the way back.

I would be surprised if there are actual interop problems with 5e-324.
Consequently, I don’t quite buy a range limit at 1e-308 yet.
(It’s a precision limit, in any case.)

Grüße, Carsten

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