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Ever wondered why JavaScript/TypeScript numbers have the precision they do? 🤔 
It’s because they follow the IEEE 754 double-precision floating-point standard, which stores numbers in 64 bits. This allows for about 15-17 decimal digits of precision, but it also introduces rounding errors for certain decimal values. See 👇  🧵

BigInt was introduced (in ES2020) as a solution to JS/TS's number precision limitations. I imagine it's for all the cryptography, finance, big data and other applications.

This article gives an example of Twitter IDs being u64 bit integers:

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BigInt was introduced (in ES2020) as a solution to JS/TS's number precision limitations. I imagine it's for all the cryptography, finance, big data and other applications.

This article gives an example of Twitter IDs being u64 bit integers:
https://nitayneeman.com/blog/introducing-bigint-primitive-in-ecmascript-2020/