Chapter 3 DynaScript Predefined Objects

Number properties

The Number object has these properties:

MAX_VALUE property

Syntax

Number.MAX_VALUE

Attributes

This property is read-only.

Description

Returns the largest positive finite value of the number type, which is approximately 1.7976931348623157e308.

Return

Integer.

Example

This example displays the largest possible number that can be used in PowerDynamo:

<!--SCRIPT
    document.WriteLn( Number.MAX_VALUE );
-->

MIN_VALUE property

Syntax

Number.MIN_VALUE

Attributes

This property is read-only.

Description

Returns the smallest positive nonzero value of the number type, which is approximately 5e-324.

Return

Integer.

Example

This example displays the smallest positive non-zero number that can be used in PowerDynamo:

<!--SCRIPT
    document.WriteLn( Number.MIN_VALUE );
-->

NaN property

Syntax

Number.NaN

Attributes

This property is read-only.

Description

A value that indicates that an arithmetic expression returned a value that was not a number.

Return

String (NaN)

Example

This example will have an output of NaN.

<!--SCRIPT
    document.WriteLn( Number.NaN );
-->

NEGATIVE_INFINITY property

Syntax

Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY

Attributes

This property is read-only.

Description

Returns a string indicating that a number is outside the range that ECMAScript is capable of representing.

Return

String (-Infinity).

Example

This example will have an output of -Infinity :

<!--SCRIPT
    document.WriteLn( Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY );
-->

POSITIVE_INFINITY property

Syntax

Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY

Attributes

This property is read-only.

Description

Returns a string indicating that a number is outside the range that ECMAScript is capable of representing.

Return

String (Infinity)

Example

This example will have an output of Infinity :

<!--SCRIPT
    document.WriteLn( Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY );
-->