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> However I must object to the idea that "real hardware" cannot handle the petabyte scale.

By the time I'm talking about integers that don't fit in x86 address space, I'm not talking JSON ;).

I guess that makes sense and speaks to a bigger problem here, which is that with a very large number one certainly wants to simply store it in a massive file on disk, and the encoding to do that probably shouldn't be based on the printable ASCII digits--because why.

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