# Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER — Description

> Double precision floating point format only has 52 bits to represent the mantissa, so it can only safely represent integers between -(253 – 1) and 253 – 1.

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Double precision floating point format only has 52 bits to represent the mantissa, so it can only safely represent integers between -(253 – 1) and 253 – 1. "Safe" in this context refers to the ability to represent integers exactly and to compare them correctly. For example, Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER + 1 === Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER + 2 will evaluate to true, which is mathematically incorrect. See {{jsxref("Number.isSafeInteger()")}} for more information.

As mentioned in {{jsxref("Number.EPSILON")}}, the precision of numbers depends on their magnitude. Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER represents the largest value at which integer-level operations can be performed precisely, but you can still perform meaningful arithmetic on numbers larger than that, just without integer-level precision. The largest representable number in JavaScript is actually {{jsxref("Number.MAX_VALUE")}}, which is approximately 1.7976931348623157 × 10308.

Because MAX_SAFE_INTEGER is a static property of {{jsxref("Number")}}, you always use it as Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, rather than as a property of a number value.

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