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This is quite pedantic because I really agree with your overall point, but:

> Every programming platform has limits on number sizes.

Arbitrary precision integers are a thing, and lots of languages at least have library support for them (I'm sure JavaScript does in an npm library). In Python they're even the way that all integers work (as of Python 3). Of course they're limited in principle by available memory.




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