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		esailija on March 24, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program... 53 bits that cannot overflow (it only becomes less accurate) is not enough but 64 bits are, even with the risk of overflow?

colanderman on March 24, 2016 [–]

Who said anything about 64 bits?

esailija on March 24, 2016 | [–]

The complaint was that JavaScript doesn't have 64-bit integers but only 53.

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