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Surely "1337" is the same as 1337, right? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meme transcription:

Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

json doesn't have ints, it has Numbers, which are ieee754 floats. if you want to precisely store the full range of a 64 bit int (anything larger than 2^53 -1) then string is indeed the correct type

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Let me show you what Ethan has to say about this: https://feddit.org/post/319546/174361

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