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What is the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values?
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Why does NaN === NaN return false in Javascript?
> undefined === undefined
true
> NaN === NaN
false
> a = NaN
NaN
> a === a
false
On the documentation page I see this:
Testing against NaN
Equality operator (== and ===) cannot be used to test a value against NaN. Use isNaN instead.
Is there any reference that answers to the question? It would be welcome.
Strict answer: Because the JS spec says so:
If Type(x) is Number, then
If x is NaN, return false.
If y is NaN, return false.
Useful answer: The IEEE 754 spec for floating-point numbers (which is used by all languages for floating-point) says that NaNs are never equal.
This behaviour is specified by the IEEE-754 standard (which the JavaScript spec follows in this respect).
For an extended discussion, see What is the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values?
Although either side of NaN===NaN contains the same value and their type is Number but they are not same. According to ECMA-262, either side of == or === contains NaN then it will result false value.
you may find a details rules in here-
http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-11.9.3
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What is the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values?
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Why does NaN === NaN return false in Javascript?
> undefined === undefined
true
> NaN === NaN
false
> a = NaN
NaN
> a === a
false
On the documentation page I see this:
Testing against NaN
Equality operator (== and ===) cannot be used to test a value against NaN. Use isNaN instead.
Is there any reference that answers to the question? It would be welcome.
Strict answer: Because the JS spec says so:
If Type(x) is Number, then
If x is NaN, return false.
If y is NaN, return false.
Useful answer: The IEEE 754 spec for floating-point numbers (which is used by all languages for floating-point) says that NaNs are never equal.
This behaviour is specified by the IEEE-754 standard (which the JavaScript spec follows in this respect).
For an extended discussion, see What is the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values?
Although either side of NaN===NaN contains the same value and their type is Number but they are not same. According to ECMA-262, either side of == or === contains NaN then it will result false value.
you may find a details rules in here-
http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-11.9.3
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Why does typeof NaN return 'number'?
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In Javascript, the value 0/0 returns NaN. But why does the typeof operator return this value as a Number type? I was expecting typeof to also return NaN.
let value = 0/0
console.log(value, typeof(value))
The console returns: NaN, "Number"
Because NAN is a number!! lol gotta love JS!
typeof(NaN)
//= number
A good description from: https://javascriptrefined.io/nan-and-typeof-36cd6e2a4e43
The ECMAScript standard states that Numbers should be IEEE-754 floating point data. This includes Infinity, -Infinity, and also NaN.
By definition, NaN is the return value from operations which have an undefined numerical result. Hence why, in JavaScript, aside from being part of the global object, it is also part of the Number object: Number.NaN. It is still a numeric data type, but it is undefined as a real number.
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Why does [NaN].includes(NaN) return true in JavaScript?
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I'm learning about includes() feature, and I found this code
[NaN].includes(NaN) //True
But
NaN === NaN // False
Why this is posible?
Using equality NaN === NaN and using includes [NaN].includes(NaN) are basically asking two different questions:
Equality - are this things that have the same name are actually equal?
NaN is an amorphic entity, which describes the concept of not being a numeric value, and doesn't actually have a value you can compare. Equality uses the Strict Equality Comparison, and defines that a comparison x === y with NaN on any side of the equation is always false:
a. If x is NaN, return false.
b. If y is NaN, return false.
Includes - do I have something with that "name" in the array?
However, to search for a NaN in an array, and to keep the to Array#includes signature of passing only one param, and not a callback, we need a way to "name" what we are searching for. To make that possible, ccording to the Array#includes definition in the ECMAScript 2016 (ECMA-262) docs:
The includes method intentionally differs from the similar indexOf
method in two ways. First, it uses the SameValueZero algorithm,
instead of Strict Equality Comparison, allowing it to detect NaN
array elements. Second, it does not skip missing array elements,
instead treating them as undefined.
The definition of SameValueZero(x, y) states that when comparing:
If x is NaN and y is NaN, return true.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/isNaN
Unlike all other possible values in JavaScript, it is not possible to rely on the equality operators (== and ===) to determine whether a value is NaN or not, because both NaN == NaN and NaN === NaN evaluate to false. Hence, the necessity of an isNaN function.
[ NaN ].includes(NaN) what this does is to check if NaN is in the [ ].
NaN === NaN and NaN == NaN will still return the same value which is false. What you just have to know is that the includes methods checks if a value is the array it is been called on. Behind the hood i think the includes Array method does it's checks using typeof()
typeof(NaN) // number
[ NaN ].includes(NaN) // true
typeof("1") // string
[ 1 ].includes("1") // false
typeof(1) // number
[ 1 ].includes(1) // true
this is according to the SameValueZero Algorithm that the includes method uses. Internally it checks the type of the value
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Why does typeof NaN return 'number'?
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NaN represents Not-A-Number.
It appears that angular.isNumber thinks it is a number. (angularjs 1.4.2)
Why does angular.isNumber return true for NaN input?
thanks
Quoting IgorMinar, Angular Developer in this exact question:
$ node
> typeof NaN
'number'
It kind of makes sense if you squint with both eyes and plug your
ears.
If you deliberately use NaN in your app, you should use isNaN instead
of angular.isNumber.
I'm inclined to say that the current behavior, even though a bit
surprising, is consistent with how NaN is being treated in javascript.
If you have some good arguments for changing the behavior please share
them with us.
So the question really goes for the javascript standard itself not for Angular
And to answer this question we must go to ECMAScript 5 specification of number type, of course it says:
4.3.20 Number type
set of all possible Number values including the special “Not-a-Number”
(NaN) values, positive infinity, and negative infinity
4.3.23 NaN
number value that is a IEEE 754 “Not-a-Number” value
So yes, according to the latest ECMAScript Specification i'm a number
Here's the best way that I can think of to explain this.
Although the value of NaN represents something that is not a number, the value NaN itself is still a number type (in the type system sense).
It's also a defined value for a floating point number in IEEE 754, which is what JavaScript uses for numbers. It is sensible that values infinity and NaN would be number types.
The ECMA spec defines NaN as a IEEE 754 Not-a-Number number value. One reason for the NaN global being a number are comparison purposes. It is also needed to represent undefined numerical results, like the value of Math.sqrt(-1). So it’s not particularly AngularJS specific. Consider the following:
typeof NaN === "number" // true
typeof NaN === typeof NaN // true
typeof NaN === typeof 123 // true
NaN === NaN // false
isNaN(NaN) // true
isNaN(123) // false
isNaN('123') // false
isNaN('|23') // true
So isNumber returns true for NaN because it is a Number. To check for numerics, use isNaN().
Most likely angular just uses the type of what you pass in. if the type is number then it returns true.
If you want to know if something is a number (excluding NaN) you can do the following.
function isNumber(val){
return angular.isNumber(val) && (val == val);
}
This works by first determing if val is a number. If it is check to see if it's NaN.
NaN is not equal to itself (or any other number for that matter).
it's not related to angular, it's JavaScript
try this
typeof NaN
it will return number
There are really two meanings of "number" here:
the abbreviation "NaN" means that there is no meaningful answer to a particular mathematical operation; you could say "no such number"
however, every value in a language like JS has a type, and the type of data which goes into and out of mathematical operations is known in JS as "number"; thus when JS wants a special value to say that a mathematical operation has no answer, that special value is a special number
Note that this apparent contradiction is less obvious in other languages, because JS is unusual in having only one numeric type, rather than (at least) integer and real/float types. Having NaN as a floating point value is standard across pretty much all modern languages, but because of the word "number", it perhaps seems more surprising in JS.
The Angular function is one of a set of utilities for testing the type of a value. The documentation for it mentions that it returns true for infinities and NaN, and points to the standard isFinite function for when that's not desirable.
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I am wondering why undefined == undefined but NaN != NaN.
Because that's how it is defined in both the Abstract Equality Comparison Algorithm, and the Strict Equality Comparison Algorithm.
If either operand to == or === is NaN, it returns false.
Abstract
If Type(x) is Number, then
If x is NaN, return false.
If y is NaN, return false.
If x is the same Number value as y, return true.
If x is +0 and y is −0, return true.
If x is −0 and y is +0, return true.
Return false.
EDIT: The motivation for the unequal comparison as noted by #CMS is compliance with the IEEE 754 standard.
From the Wikipedia link provided in the comment below:
...The normal comparison operations however treat NaNs as unordered and compare −0 and +0 as equal. The totalOrder predicate will order these cases, and it also distinguishes between different representations of NaNs and between the same decimal floating point number encoded in different ways.
Because Math.sqrt(-5) !== Math.sqrt(-6).
Not sure why it is like this, but in order to check if a certain statement or variable is a NaN, you should use the isNaN method
I would assume because the IEEE standard allows for more than one representation of NaN. Not all NaNs are equal to each other...
The reasoning is that the creators wanted x == x returning false to mean that x is NaN, so NaN == NaN has to return false to be consistent.