Inline On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:52 AM kai zhu <[email protected]> wrote:
> looking at the use-cases for this feature @ > https://github.com/tc39/proposal-bigint#use-cases, i'm not convinced it > improves everyday programming, or outweigh the benefit and simplicity > having a single number type. > ... > - are there actual common algorithmic use-cases in frontend programming or > nodejs apps that need arithmetic on integers greater than 52-bits? should > that rather be the domain of webassembly? > The Bosch BMP280 barometric pressure sensor is capable of producing a high accuracy, compensated pressure value that requires 64 bits, which JavaScript is not presently capable of representing. This is only one of many similar examples in this domain. Rick
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