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CPython's json defaults to allow_nan=True and both emits and accepts NaN/Infinity/-Infinity; V8 JSON.stringify serializes NaN and Infinity as null (never omitted) and JSON.parse rejects the NaN token; Go's encoder returns UnsupportedValueError ('json: unsupported value: NaN'); pydantic's finite_number error fires for infinite or too-large floats where finiteness is required.\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nLimitations:\n- The full rendered Go message is 'json: unsupported value: NaN' (value appended at runtime via strconv); only the prefix is verbatim in source.\n\nOther error fragments:\n- Input should be a finite number\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/ca0cdf42cf2181c345739bc0e24c8ff771bd8c38/Doc/library/json.rst (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): By default the module accepts and outputs Infinity, -Infinity and NaN as if they were valid JSON number literals, which is not RFC compliant; allow_nan controls it.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdn/content/6667e73bf698511ffd956b8a9eafc8ea7c6adb46/files/en-us/web/javascript/reference/global_objects/json/stringify/index.md (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Infinity and NaN are serialized as null: JSON.stringify([NaN, null, Infinity]) returns '[null,null,null]'.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golang/go/983064c1b5bd8e0ad581607aa140167c698cd4eb/src/encoding/json/encode.go (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): UnsupportedValueError.Error returns 'json: unsupported value: ' + value string (used for NaN/Inf floats).\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pydantic/pydantic-core/383eb95a19433754c0cecf7025b50c26b6d97a36/src/errors/types.rs (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): FiniteNumber error message is 'Input should be a finite number'.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/ca0cdf42cf2181c345739bc0e24c8ff771bd8c38/Lib/json/encoder.py (github_source, 2026-09-27, documented_behavior): json encoder raises ValueError('Out of range float values are not JSON compliant: ' + repr(o)) when allow_nan=False (line 243).\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/ca0cdf42cf2181c345739bc0e24c8ff771bd8c38/Modules/_json.c (github_source, 2026-09-27, documented_behavior): C accelerator raises the same 'Out of range float values are not JSON compliant' ValueError.\n\nSearch phrasings: json NaN python javascript go difference; 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