JavaScript Number POSITIVE_INFINITY property

Definition and usage

POSITIVE_INFINITY Returns positive infinity.

POSITIVE_INFINITY ‘greater than any other number’.

POSITIVE_INFINITY The property represents numbers greater than Number.MAX_VALUE value.

This value represents positive infinity.

Example

Example 1

let x = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY;

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Example 2

Create positive infinity:

let n = (Number.MAX_VALUE) * 2;

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Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY

POSITIVE_INFINITY is a property of the JavaScript Number object.

You can only use it as Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY.

If you use x.POSITIVE_INFINITY, where x is a variable, it will return undefined:

Example

let x = 100;
x.POSITIVE_INFINITY;

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Syntax

Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY

Return value

Type Description
Number Infinity

Description

Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY is a special value that is returned in arithmetic operations or function generation when a number larger than the largest number that JavaScript can represent (that is, larger than Number.MAX_VALUE when it returns a number that is larger than

JavaScript displays POSITIVE_INFINITY Using Infinity. This value has an arithmetic behavior very similar to infinity. For example, any number multiplied by infinity results in infinity, and any number divided by infinity results in 0.

In ECMAScript v1 and subsequent versions, it can also be used Infinity Replaced by Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY.

Browser support

Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY It is a feature of ECMAScript1 (ES1).

All Browsers Fully Support ES1 (JavaScript 1997):

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