diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 156c9ae..1e2d902 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ appveyor = { repository = "serde-rs/json" }
 
 [dependencies]
 serde = "1.0"
-num-traits = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
 linked-hash-map = { version = "0.5", optional = true }
 itoa = "0.4"
 dtoa = "0.4"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 360d749..b9829fc 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -345,7 +345,6 @@
 ))]
 #![deny(missing_docs)]
 
-extern crate num_traits;
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate serde;
 extern crate dtoa;
diff --git a/src/number.rs b/src/number.rs
index 10c36a9..833dcfe 100644
--- a/src/number.rs
+++ b/src/number.rs
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ use std::fmt::{self, Debug, Display};
 use std::i64;
 use std::str::FromStr;
 
-#[cfg(not(feature = "arbitrary_precision"))]
-use num_traits::NumCast;
-
 #[cfg(feature = "arbitrary_precision")]
 use dtoa;
 #[cfg(feature = "arbitrary_precision")]
@@ -187,7 +184,11 @@ impl Number {
     pub fn as_i64(&self) -> Option<i64> {
         #[cfg(not(feature = "arbitrary_precision"))]
         match self.n {
-            N::PosInt(n) => NumCast::from(n),
+            N::PosInt(n) => if n <= i64::max_value() as u64 {
+                Some(n as i64)
+            } else {
+                None
+            },
             N::NegInt(n) => Some(n),
             N::Float(_) => None,
         }
@@ -215,8 +216,7 @@ impl Number {
         #[cfg(not(feature = "arbitrary_precision"))]
         match self.n {
             N::PosInt(n) => Some(n),
-            N::NegInt(n) => NumCast::from(n),
-            N::Float(_) => None,
+            N::NegInt(_) | N::Float(_) => None,
         }
         #[cfg(feature = "arbitrary_precision")]
         self.n.parse().ok()
@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ impl Number {
     pub fn as_f64(&self) -> Option<f64> {
         #[cfg(not(feature = "arbitrary_precision"))]
         match self.n {
-            N::PosInt(n) => NumCast::from(n),
-            N::NegInt(n) => NumCast::from(n),
+            N::PosInt(n) => Some(n as f64),
+            N::NegInt(n) => Some(n as f64),
             N::Float(n) => Some(n),
         }
         #[cfg(feature = "arbitrary_precision")]