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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yes, it most literally and inarguably is:

https://www.iso.org/standard/71616.html

Page 3 of INTERNATIONAL STANDARD

  • ISO/IEC 21778 - Information technology — The JSON data interchange syntax

8 Numbers A number is a sequence of decimal digits with no superfluous leading zero. It may have a preceding minus sign (U+002D). It may have a fractional part prefixed by a decimal point (U+002E). It may have an exponent, prefixed by e (U+0065) or E (U+0045) and optionally + (U+002B) or – (U+002D). The digits are the code points U+0030 through U+0039.