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		cellis on June 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why ['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt) returns [1, NaN... Recently I learned that in Javascript, `[5 * 5] * 2 // 50 [5 + 5] * 2 // NaN 1 + [5 * 5] * 3 // 76 1 + [5 * 5] - 1 // 124` Interestingly, even Typescript will not ( by default ) catch this class of bugs.

megous on June 21, 2019 [–]

[5+5]*2 is not NaN

cellis on June 21, 2019 | [–]

True, I was playing around to get examples in runJS. I think I mis pasted that one. Oh well.

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