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Number

Numbers can be integers or floating point. There are not separate types for these, we can simply give numeric values to any variables.


	12
	-24	
	-123.45	
	-12.34E-5
	1.e2

Remember that E (or e) means "times 10 to the power of".

Range: +/- Number.MIN_VALUE .. Number.MAX_VALUE (approx +/- 5.0E-324 .. 1.79E+308)

Accuracy: 64-bit IEEE-754 standard, giving just over 19 decimal digits. (See the ECMAScript standard for precise details.)

If the result of an operation which should yield a number cannot be represented as a number, the variable gets special value Number.NaN (not a number). As a shorthand you can code that simply as NaN.

There are also special values Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY and Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY and again there are shorthand notations: +Infinity and -Infinity.

Note that all of this is platform-independent: an advantage over some other languages.

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