Also note that the sinister problem here is that implementations which convert numbers to floats will silently lose precision when they overflow the range allow

Also note that the sinister problem here is that implementations which convert numbers to floats will silently lose precision when they overflow the range allowed in RFC 7159. This leads to quite subtle errors, and is why Twitter moved to encoding Snowflake IDs as strings: https://blog.twitter.com/2011/important-direct-message-ids-will-become-64-bit-snowflake-ids-on-sep-30 https://blog.twitter.com/2011/important-direct-message-ids-w...