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In general in WebDev and general software development there are lots of talks like these about how you should identify and overcome imposter syndrome. For some that is useful. For others, there was a fellow earlier who tried converting long(64 bit on Linux and 32 bit on Windows in C) to double and back. A double can loselessly hold a long smaller than 2^53 and a few other long's sparsely. One of the longs a double can hold is -2^63 which if he knew about doubles would not have surprised him. Meanwhile 2^63-1(the maximum value for a long in 2's complement when it is a 64 bit value) was not a double. My point being, be humble.