When one zero is just not enough: JavaScript’s two zeros

Posted by Owen Densmore on Oct 05, 2013; 4:18pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/When-one-zero-is-just-not-enough-JavaScript-s-two-zeros-tp7583996.html

This series on numerics is both useful and entertaining!  Believe it or not, JS has +/- 0.

   

http://www.2ality.com/2012/03/signedzero.html

It may seem weird but it does come up in some cases.

A possibly more important part of the series is just what IS an integer in JS.  Most of us consider it a 32 bit integer but that's not the case:

    http://www.2ality.com/2013/10/safe-integers.html

   -- Owen

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