Unexpected behaviour when parsing very large numbers

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Observed Behaviour

bignum() does not instantiate very large integers (>= 1e+308) as expected:

bignum(1e+307).toNumber() === 1e+307 // expected
bignum(1e+308).toNumber() === 0 // unexpected

Expected Behaviour

Instantiate a bignum object for very large integers as expected or throw an error if the argument passed to bignum() exceeds a threshold.

Version Info

• [email protected]
• node v8.9.3
• npm 5.5.1
• OS X 10.11.6