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

"Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com> Wed, 21 May 2014 14:59 UTC

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From: "Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com>
To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, "Manger, James" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>
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Subject: Re: [Json] I-JSON Topic #5: Numbers
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On 5/20/14, 8:07 PM, "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> 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.  Furthermore, an I-JSON sender MUST NOT expect a
>receiver to treat an integer whose absolute value is greater than
>9007199254740992 as an exact value."

+1.  Succinct and captures the issues.

-- 
Joe Hildebrand

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