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We use an older 2008 edition of IEEE754 standard

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@TallTed had mentioned at https://github.com/w3c/json-ld-api/pull/619 that the text of the spec explicitly refers to IEEE754:2008 version while a newer 2019 version is available.

to confirm, I checked RFC8785 JSON Canonicalization Scheme (JCS) and RFC8259 The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format for a specific IEEE754 version and found out they do not specify any.

We probably should:

  • either upgrade the spec to use the latest version,
  • or just avoid specifying standard version in these references just as the aforementioned RFCs do.

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