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You could say that for almost all of most language's standard libraries.

Imagine you ad a standard library string-to-integer parser that didn't know about minus signs. Sure, you could write your own function that wrapped the parser to allow for negative numbers, but wouldn't it be better if the standard library one did it?

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I take your general point with the caveat that no negatives leaves half of all values for a given integer type unyieldable whereas lack of scientific notation support does not.

I was operating under an unfounded assumption that the blog post existed instead of the code to do the thing for your particular use case rather than in addition to it, which isn’t entirely fair given we have had no prior interactions and I have not investigated your work at all.

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