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Seems similar to this beauty: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115 https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115

• canhascodez 8y ago
  You seem to be making some sort of negative judgment about that particular issue. Perhaps you'd care to give us the benefit of your reasoning.
  • _pmf_ 8y ago
    > You seem to be making some sort of negative judgment about that particular issue. Perhaps you'd care to give us the benefit of your reasoning. A freshman learns not to store data in floating point data types if the significant digits of the data's domain exceeds the floating points guaranteed 1:1 domain. Some maintainers of node.js's file system module did not (or did not care about it)[]. Given that JS developers are hailed as the pinnacle of software engineering, this strikes me as odd. [] "But JS does not have a proper 64 bit datatype / BigInts" ... that's not an argument