JavaScript's OTHER most unused primitive... BIGINT

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The maximum safe integer that JavaScript's number primitive can represent is 9,007,199,254,740,991 which is obviously very large, but it is also important to be aware of this limitation as numbers start to behave unpredictably past this point and might break your app.

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0:00 bigint and MAX_SAFE_INTEGER
0:58 How numbers are stored
1:29 The problem
2:14 Going beyond the MAX_SAFE_INTEGER
3:08 The solution
3:18 Does it really matter?

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