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JavaScript valueOf Method: Number Object

Description

The valueOf() method returns the primitive value of a number object as a number data type.

Version

Implemented in JavaScript 1.1

Syntax

valueOf()

Parameters

None

Example:

In the following web document, valueOf() method is used to get the primitive value of a number object.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>JavaScript Number object - valueOf() method example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">JavaScript Number object : valueOf() method</h1>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
var x = Number(301);
document.write(x.valueOf());
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

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Supported Browser

Internet Explorer 7 Firefox 3.6 Google Chrome 7 Safari 5.0.1 Opera 10
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See also:

JavaScript Core objects, methods, properties.

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JavaScript: Tips of the Day

Returns true if the given number is a power of 2, false otherwise

Example:

const tips_isPowerOfTwo = n => !!n && (n & (n - 1)) == 0;
console.log(tips_isPowerOfTwo(0)); 
console.log(tips_isPowerOfTwo(4));
console.log(tips_isPowerOfTwo(16));

Output:

false
true
true