"Perhaps all the numbers we use are safe. Are we actually mangling our numbers? Probably not...but will we know? Will anything blow up, or will our application be silently, subtly wrong?

I suspect that when this problem does occur, it goes undetected for longer than it should. In the remainder of this article, we examine potential improvements to our handling of long."

https://www.techempower.com/blog/2016/07/05/mangling-json-nu...