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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:18PM (#29247499)
Because strings aren't numbers and Infinity is a number
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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by JasonCannon on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @09:28PM (#29248734)
Strings are the safest way to hold big numbers in JavaScript due to how JavaScript represents numbers. Also no, infinity is not a number. It's a concept.
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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by boomlinde on Thursday November 18, 2021 @04:28PM (#29270827)
Numbers is a concept. For some purposes it is useful to consider a number that is infinite, which is why concepts like the extended real number line have been invented.
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