nits on BigInt Proposal

[Rick Waldron]

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On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:52 AM kai zhu <kaizhu256 at gmail.com> 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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