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by sharkdesk 2931 days ago
In theory, that is true. In practice, if the consuming client is javascript, it is really hard to map the numbers into an arbitrary precision number upon decoding (which would come from some library like big.js), rather than a pure double.

Which means, in practice, you are stuck passing numbers as strings (and on the javascript side, pass that string into the arbitrary precision number library)