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number.isnan
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ES2015-compliant shim for Number.isNaN - the global isNaN returns false positives.
ES2015-compliant shim for Number.isNaN.
This package implements the es-shim API interface. It works in an ES3-supported environment and complies with the spec.
Number.isNaN = require('number.isnan');
var assert = require('assert');
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN(undefined));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN(null));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN(false));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN(true));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN(0));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN(42));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN(Infinity));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN(-Infinity));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN('foo'));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN(function () {}));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN([]));
assert.notOk(Number.isNaN({}));
assert.ok(Number.isNaN(NaN));
Simply clone the repo, npm install, and run npm test
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ES2015-compliant shim for Number.isNaN - the global isNaN returns false positives.
The npm package number.isnan receives a total of 236 weekly downloads. As such, number.isnan popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that number.isnan demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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