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Which of these javascript expressions is false? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Remavas@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

NaN is a special floating point value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

It's weird but it makes sense why it was chosen to be this way.