Closed
Bug 121352
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
Number.MIN_VALUE constant should be less-than-zero
Categories
(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)
Tracking
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VERIFIED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: aoeuaoeu, Assigned: rogerl)
Details
The page below, when loaded in this version of Mozilla (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U;
Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011224) as packed in Debian
mozilla-browser_2:0.9.7-1 shows the following output:
Number.MIN_VALUE = 5e-324
Number.MAX_VALUE = 1.7976931348623157e+308
Number.MIN_VALUE < 0 ? false
Number.MAX_VALUE > 0 ? true
Ok, according to that, Number.MIN_VALUE is certainly VERY small, but it's still
positive. I could mention at least one use for negative numbers and zero in
JavaScript :)
<html>
<head>
<title>Number.MIN_VALUE</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('Number.MIN_VALUE = ' + Number.MIN_VALUE + '<br />');
document.write('Number.MAX_VALUE = ' + Number.MAX_VALUE + '<br />');
document.write('Number.MIN_VALUE < 0 ? ' + (Number.MIN_VALUE < 0) + '<br />');
document.write('Number.MAX_VALUE > 0 ? ' + (Number.MAX_VALUE > 0) + '<br />');
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Comment 1•24 years ago
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Doesn't the spec specifically say that Number.MIN_VALUE is supposed to be number
closest to zero that is not negative that is representable by JS? That number
(5e-324) looks correct, IIRC.
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Comment 2•24 years ago
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See http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/server/jsref/number.htm#1193275
This bug is INVALID.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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Comment 3•24 years ago
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Marking Verified. Christopher, thank you for researching this!
Javier, thank you for this report; I wasn't aware of this fact -
Here is what the ECMA-262 spec (Edition 3 Final) says:
15.7.3.3 Number.MIN_VALUE
The value of Number.MIN_VALUE is the smallest positive value
of the number type, which is approximately 5 × 10^-324
This spec is available at http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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