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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	docs@python, jcea, mark.dickinson, nedbat, picomancer, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2013-12-04.20:12:02
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Message-id	<1386187922.12.0.643284009006.issue19871@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Oddly, with all of the strictness in JSON, the exponent-marker "e" > can be upper- or lower-case I'd guess that the aim is that common floating-point output formats from a variety of languages are valid JSON. That would also explain why both '+' and '-' are allowed on the exponent, but only '-' on the significand, and why leading zeros are permitted on the exponent but not the significand.

> Oddly, with all of the strictness in JSON, the exponent-marker "e"
> can be upper- or lower-case

I'd guess that the aim is that common floating-point output formats from a variety of languages are valid JSON.  That would also explain why both '+' and '-' are allowed on the exponent, but only '-' on the significand, and why leading zeros are permitted on the exponent but not the significand.

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