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Re: [Json] "best practices" Vs. Profile for i-json

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Mon, 04 August 2014 16:45 UTC

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Stephen Dolan scripsit:

> The exact requirement is more subtle than this.

Thank you for explaining so clearly what I have been fumbling so badly.

> "An implementation [MUST NOT/SHOULD NOT] distinguish between two
> numeric literals whose decimal values round to the same IEEE754
> double-precision value (using standard round-to-nearest, ties-to-even
> rounding)."

+1

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