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Eh, it’s not underspecified. It’s just… strangely specified, in a way that people will ignore and misparse. But then, if it had been specified in any other way people would have ignored and misparsed it too.



People going to put money in floats unless you make it impossible. Then they send it via json and round and probably over or under flow and all sorts of amusing bugs result.




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