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What is type of foo, if foo != foo?

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  • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

    Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote:

    Isn't it amazing, how NaN is a number

    Yes! Especially since NaN is short for "Not a Number"! X| My whole life is a lie!

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    Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan
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    Clarified, but how is a number a word (the size of register) and how is a word actually a string (the data type)? :laugh: Plus, short form of your life is a lie (removing the F). :cool:

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    • A Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

      Sure, read about Word in computer architecture[^] and the string data type[^]. One thing you should know is that there is no actual string type, it is just an array of characters. :-) Good luck for more in-depths.

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      Palash Mondal_
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      Thanks for it. Have a nice day ahead! :)

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      • P Palash Mondal_

        Recently had been debugging using the browser console, when I found this answer. Can you guess the type of foo here? Is it a string, function or else?

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        Joan M
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        Any after overloading operators...

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        • M Manfred Rudolf Bihy

          By definition undefined should be unequal to undefined. Is it? Cheers!

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          Lost User
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          No, undefined compared with anything (anything includes also again undefined) is "an error" and therefore neither equal nor unequal... it is simply again undefined.

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          • A Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

            Great that you already know the NaN is a number. Now, if you have ever programmed in low-level, you would know that a word is a size given to a data, 1 byte, 2 byte etc. So the size of the register in CPU is a word; pre-defined size, doesn't matter 8-bit 16-bit or what. The size is number, thus, a number is word. :-) Now a word in our language, for example, "Hello", cannot be represented as a word in computer which needs some other type, which is string (array of characters), thus a word is a string. From here comes the metaphor, In programming, a number is a word and a word is a string. :cool:

            The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~

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            newton saber
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            Great explanation of how semantics and jargon are sometimes or often at odds with meaning.

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            • P Palash Mondal_

              Recently had been debugging using the browser console, when I found this answer. Can you guess the type of foo here? Is it a string, function or else?

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              newton saber
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              spoiler alert -- answer is below Opened Chrome Dev console and ran the following.

              var x = 'garbage' / 10;

              x
              NaN

              x != x // with coercion
              true

              x !== x // even without coercion
              true

              typeof(x)
              "number"

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              • P Palash Mondal_

                Recently had been debugging using the browser console, when I found this answer. Can you guess the type of foo here? Is it a string, function or else?

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                PIEBALDconsult
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                How about int ?

                private static System.Random randy = new System.Random() ;
                int foo { get { return ( randy.Next() ) ; } }

                :-D

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                • P PIEBALDconsult

                  How about int ?

                  private static System.Random randy = new System.Random() ;
                  int foo { get { return ( randy.Next() ) ; } }

                  :-D

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                  Dennis_E
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                  Or DateTime:

                  DateTime foo { get { return DateTime.Now; } }

                  :-D

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                  • N newton saber

                    spoiler alert -- answer is below Opened Chrome Dev console and ran the following.

                    var x = 'garbage' / 10;

                    x
                    NaN

                    x != x // with coercion
                    true

                    x !== x // even without coercion
                    true

                    typeof(x)
                    "number"

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                    Palash Mondal_
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                    Awesome :thumbsup:

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                    • P Palash Mondal_

                      Recently had been debugging using the browser console, when I found this answer. Can you guess the type of foo here? Is it a string, function or else?

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                      User 11783308
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                      NaN

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