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Raphael on Aug 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Toward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6

If you want to use native JSON, store it as an object with a string.

{ "small": 2, "large": { "bignum": "-9223372036854775807.4237482374983253298159" } }

Then make sure to replace or treat the object as a big number. Granted, it is more busywork.

rpedela on Aug 20, 2013 [–]

That is fine if the JSON consumer and producer are Javascript. What happens when the producer is a language that handles large numbers correctly? The numbers are rounded in Javascript.

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