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Not really; those int types differ in range, but while that matters for a schema format, it doesn't really for an interchange format.

OTOH, exact decimals (of which integers are a subset) differ fundamentally in meaning from limited precision binary (or decimal, though that's more rarely encountered) floating point approximations. Which matters in interchange as well as schema.



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