JavaScript Struggles — Part 2 | Numbers

I personally didn’t understand how JS acts with numbers, but after I learned about it.

We have to understand what’s the data types of JavaScript, and how to use them. Let me help you with it. 😄

In JS we have three data types for numbers: Number, null, NaN.

I’ll explain each of them and give an example for each of them.

• Number: The main Number data type.
• null: intentional absence of any object value.
• NaN: Not a Number.

Number

whether it’s an integer like: 1
or float like: 1.3

It is a number, if there was a decimal number it’ll add it, if not it’ll sow up as a normal integer.

console.log(5/2); // Outputs: 2.5
console.log(4/2); /// Outputs: 2

We usually use Number() to turn the variable to number.

NULL

Null basically is none. If you made an undefended variable it’ll equal null.

And it doesn’t mean that it’s an empty string or 0.

let nothing; // This variable is undefined.

console.log(null == nothing); // Outputs: true
console.log(null == 0); // Outputs: false
console.log(null == ""); // Outputs: false

That happens because null only equals the undefined variable. null and undefined are equal but not identical.

Null usage:

We can use null data type as 0, since it’s an object.
Let’s try it:

the_number = null; the_number++; // Add 1 to the null variable console.log(the_number); // Outputs: 1

So we can use null it instead of 0.

We can add that null is an object data type

NaN

NaN stands for Not a Number, and it appears if you have a filled string and converted it to a number.

let thing = "Something";

console.log(Number(thing)); // Outputs: NaN

But if you compared NaN it with other NaN it'll return
false.

let thing = "Something";

console.log(Number(thing)); // NaN
console.log(Number(thing) == NaN); // false

How to fix this?

Use the isNaN() method instead.

let something = "Value"; console.log(isNaN(something)); // True console.log(isNaN(Number(something))); // True

Thanks for reading! Tell me your opinion and thoughts about this topic.