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Sort of. I'm pointing out what seems to me to be an incorrect statement in the article. I think it's reasonable to have special terminology for the sequence of
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Sort of. I'm pointing out what seems to me to be an incorrect statement in the article. I think it's reasonable to have special terminology for the sequence of contiguous integers which can be represented exactly in the Number type. Safe seems a reasonable choice, provided it's used carefully.
MAX_SAFE_INTEGER seems a better choice of identifier than something like MAX_VALUE_OF_EXACTLY_REPRESENTABLE_CONTIGUOUS_SEQUENCE_OF_INTEGERS, of course, despite that it's less precise. (Even that absurdly long identifier isn't perfectly precise, as we can define a trivial sequence of a single value like Number.MAX_VALUE.) The documentation explaining it should be precise, though.