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Author Topic: Ask Reuben 168 - Big Numbers  (Read 4239 times)
Reuben B.
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« on: March 31, 2023, 12:05:27 am »

The Genero documentation gives the biggest number for various integer datatypes.  For BIGINT this is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 or 2^63 -1.
 
Recently had an interesting case where a very big BIGINT was not parsing to JSON correctly.  When we investigated it, the JSON definition of a number uses the IEEE 754 double-precision floating point format which can only represent integers precisely up to 2^53

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