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Number([undefined]) -> 0, Number([undefined,undefined]) -> NaN

samundrak

samundrak

JavaScript Dev

Number([undefined]) is 0 because JS engine will coerce it which means there will be some abstract operations inside engine and what it does is , it will call toPrimitive(hint), here argument hint means what will be the expected type or what the value should be coerced to. In JS if we try to stringify empty array then it will return empty array removing the brackets and if an array has value undefined/null then it will still return an empty string and if we try to convert empty string to number then we will get 0 as output.