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My biggest WTF was when I discovered that parseFloat("Infinity") returns... Infinity itself.

I was working on a site that dealt with English dictionaries, and had a field where you could enter either an English word, OR a number with decimals that represented its frequency. And one day I actually typed in "Infinity" as a test word, and program execution went down a completely unexpected code path... Probably the most surprised I've ever been by a bug.




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