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

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Mon, 19 May 2014 22:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] I-JSON Topic #5: Numbers
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Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) scripsit:

> As such, there will be a loss of interoperability for very small numbers
> (either positive or negative), and I think we should mention what the
> smallest safely-interoperable numbers are.  10^-308 and -10^-308 seem like
> reasonable limits in decimal-land.

This should have gone into the JSON (as opposed to I-JSON) spec as an
i14y warning.  Since it didn't, let's mention it here.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
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because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for
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