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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by ohgodplsno on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @12:54PM (#29243828)
NaN is a float according to IEEE754. All numbers in Javascript being floats, it makes sense that typeof NaN === "number".

Now, the fact that IEEE754 is insane is something else, but JS does nothing wrong (aside from not having not-floats)

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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by Ginden on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:41PM (#29244671)
> Now, the fact that IEEE754 is insane is something else, but JS does nothing wrong (aside from not having not-floats)

JS has BigInt - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by ohgodplsno on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @03:10PM (#29245793)
BigInt is relatively recent, all things considered. JS only having floats is a conception flaw.
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