Name
Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY — negative infinity
Availability
JavaScript 1.1; JScript 2.0, ECMAScript v1
Synopsis
Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY
Description
Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY
is a special numeric value that is returned when an arithmetic
operation or mathematical function generates a negative value greater
than the largest representable number in JavaScript (i.e., more
negative than -Number.MAX_VALUE)
.
JavaScript displays the NEGATIVE_INFINITY
value as
-Infinity
. This value behaves mathematically
like infinity; for example, anything multiplied by infinity is
infinity and anything divided by infinity is zero. In ECMAScript v1
and later, you can also use -Infinity
instead of
Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY
.
See Also
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