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Javascript will need to fix the mess that is its numeric types. As it currently is, you either need a bignum library with an ungodly syntax, or you are open to losing precision above a certain level, without warning. I tried solving Euler problems with JS, but it's so painful I switched back to Python after a few.

The value objects proposal for es6/es7 might fix that:

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:value_object...

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