Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY

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Number. POSITIVE_INFINITY

Description

The POSITIVE_INFINITY property of the Number object represents a positive infinity number. It is returned when a calculation returns a positive number greater than the largest number in JavaScript.

Example

Listing 6.186 shows how the POSITIVE_INFINITY property is used.

Listing 6.186 Example of POSITIVE_INFINITY
 <html> <body> <script language="JavaScript"> <!–– Hide // Performs some math computation and then checks the // result against the POSITIVE_INFINITY value if((Math.exp(999)) <= Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY_){ document.write("This is less than positive infinity"); } else{ document.write('This ...

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