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		awwright on Feb 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Do you use JSON Schema? Help us shape its ... This is wrong. All numbers in JSON are arbitrary-precision base-10 decimal numbers.

throwawaymaths on Feb 1, 2023 [–]

No they aren't. The JSON spec says implementation is up to the engine and de facto JSON numbers are parsed as ieee754 on just about every platform I can think of.

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