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A comment on What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (1991). Parent comment

Re:What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-... by enriquto on Monday June 29, 2020 @12:05PM (#23678833)
> Unfortunately, JSON doesn't have a mechanism for 100% accuracy in transmitting binary floating point numbers.

If it was just inaccurate! It cannot even deal with straightforward floats like inf, nan, or minus zero!

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