Name
Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY: negative infinity â ECMAScript v1
Synopsis
Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY
Description
Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY
is
a special numeric value that is returned when an arithmetic
operation or mathematical function generates a negative value
greater than the largest representable number in JavaScript (i.e.,
more negative than -Number.MAX_VALUE)
.
JavaScript displays the NEGATIVE_INFINITY
value as -Infinity
. This value behaves
mathematically like infinity; for example, anything multiplied by
infinity is infinity, and anything divided by infinity is zero. In
ECMAScript v1 and later, you can also use -Infinity
instead of Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY
.
See Also
Infinity, isFinite( )
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