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I didn't know that Javascript couldn't handle numbers bigger than 53-bits

The JavaScript Number type can't handle more precision than 53 bits. Magnitude is orthogonal due to floating-point representation. Precision is governed by the size of the mantissa, which is 52+1 bits long in the 64-bit IEEE 754 representation used by JavaScript.




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