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michaelt on Oct 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: RFC 8905 – The 'payto' URI Scheme for Payments

If JavaScript numbers work up to 2^52 that could precisely represent $45 trillion in cents.

IMHO if they had a choice between dropping Javascript support in preference of languages with BigInt support, or dropping support for payments larger than $45 trillion, they probably made the right decision.

megous on Oct 25, 2020 [–]

Javascript has bigint support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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