Name
Number.MAX_VALUE Property — the largest representable positive number in ActionScript
Availability
Flash 5
Synopsis
Number.MAX_VALUE
Access
Read-only
Description
The MAX_VALUE
property stores the largest
representable positive number in ActionScript
(1.7976931348623157e+308). It is convenient when you’d like to
start with a very large value, as shown in the following example. Any
number greater than MAX_VALUE
can’t be
represented by ActionScript and is therefore considered to be
POSITIVE_INFINITY
.
Example
Here we are looking for a minimum value in an array. We initialize
the minVal
variable to
MAX_VALUE
, knowing that any subsequent value will
be less than it:
var myArray = [-10, 12, 99] var minVal = Number.MAX_VALUE for (thisValue in myArray) { if (myArray[thisValue] < minVal) { minVal = myArray[thisValue]; } } trace ("The minimum value is " + minVal);
See Also
Number
.MIN_VALUE
;
Number
.POSITIVE_INFINITY
; Section 4.3.3 in Chapter 4
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