Is-postive – The most pointless NPM repository

Posted by alexrbarlow on Thursday June 18, 2015 @10:08AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/kevva/is-positive

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Re:Is-postive – The most pointless NPM repository by cedric123 on Thursday June 18, 2015 @10:33AM (#9738714)

How Is 0 not positive?

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Re:Is-postive – The most pointless NPM repository by alexrbarlow on Thursday June 18, 2015 @10:34AM (#9738719)

Maybe it was! https://github.com/kevva/is-positive/commit/3db0639fb52c463f...

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Re:Is-postive – The most pointless NPM repository by andystevens91 on Thursday June 18, 2015 @10:57AM (#9738907)

"0 is neither positive nor negative." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_%28number%29#Mathematics

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Re:Is-postive – The most pointless NPM repository by spleeder on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:12PM (#9739557)

Actually there is a positive 0 and a negative 0 in JavaScript. Try 1/+0 and 1/-0 in your browser console and notice how the result is different for each (+Infinity and -Infinity respectively).

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