The Infinity global property is a numeric value representing infinity.
Infinity
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
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Value
The same number value as Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY.
Property attributes of Infinity
| |
|---|---|
| Writable | no |
| Enumerable | no |
| Configurable | no |
Description
Infinity is a property of the global object. In other words, it is a variable in global scope.
The value Infinity (positive infinity) is greater than any other number.
This value behaves slightly differently than mathematical infinity; see Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY for details.
Examples
Using Infinity
console.log(Infinity); /* Infinity */ console.log(Infinity + 1); /* Infinity */ console.log(Math.pow(10, 1000)); /* Infinity */ console.log(Math.log(0)); /* -Infinity */ console.log(1 / Infinity); /* 0 */ console.log(1 / 0); /* Infinity */
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| ECMAScript Language Specification # sec-value-properties-of-the-global-object-infinity |
Browser compatibility
| Desktop | Mobile | Server | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | Deno | Node.js | |
Infinity |
1 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 10.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1.0 | 0.10.0 |
See also
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Infinity