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> JSON Number ARE NOT ACTUAL NUMBERS.

Well, no. They're numbers as humans think about them.

(Cue the saying about programming being a job where you hate yourself for not thinking enough like a computer)




Almost two weeks late, but I thought about this more and I totally agree with you.

I should have said "JSON number's aren't machine numbers" (e.g. float, double, integer). But serialized, human-readable numbers are still numbers, so I was wrong.




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