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derefr
on Feb 13, 2010
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WTFJS?
Yup; Number.MIN_VALUE has the minimum possible mantissa
and exponent
, for example. If you want the most negative possible number, you don't need a separate constant, you can just use -(Number.MAX_VALUE), as 754 reals are signed-magnitude.
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