Anyway, here is my minifier for JavaScript numeric literals, I hope it is of use to youhttps://github.com/ferno/minify-numeric-literal …
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UglifyJS's approach is a little mystifying. "Maybe the octal representation is shorter!" https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/blob/569c21e952c99340db73d6ad1c7102500cc1b341/lib/output.js#L1312 …
Whether the hex representation is shorter than the decimal changes several times as numbers get bigger http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9458614/at-what-point-do-hexadecimal-representations-of-numbers-take-up-less-chars-than …
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Additionally, there's an incredibly small number of cases where `0xfff...f` represents the same float as `0x1000...0` but saves a character
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The same is true in base 10 (i.e. `999...9` represents the same float as `1000...0` but saves a character) but by then you're using `1e21`
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