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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 27 May 2014 17:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] I-JSON Topic #5: Numbers
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On 27 May 2014, at 19:44, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:

> An I-JSON sender MUST NOT expect a receiver to treat a non-zero number whose absolute value is greater than 1e308 or less than 1e-308 as an exact value.  

I think James and I have successfully argued that this sentence is broken.

I have just argued that this gives a false sense of covering the issues.
Just to throw in one more issue if we want to go that far: maybe we want to mention that lots of fun can be had by interchanging 2.2250738585072011e-308 or 2.2250738585072012e-308?

Grüße, Carsten

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