people usually run into the issue from time to time when using JSON to transmit numbers to a javascript process, for example[0][1][2]

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8663298/json-transfer-of-...

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6320908/twitter-json-in-r...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/209869/what-is-the-accept...