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In JavaScript, Number is a numeric data type in the double-precision 64-bit floating point format (IEEE 754). In other programming languages different numeric types exist; for example, Integers, Floats, Doubles, or Bignums.

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General knowledge

Numeric types on Wikipedia

Technical reference

The JavaScript data structure: Number
The JavaScript global object Number

Last modified: Apr 11, 2020, by MDN contributors