How do you check that a number is NaN in JavaScript?

Question

I’ve only been trying it in Firefox’s JavaScript console, but neither of the following statements return true:

parseFloat(\'geoff\') == NaN;

parseFloat(\'ge         


        

Answer 1

marksyzm's answer works well, but it does not return false for Infinity as Infinity is techinicly not a number.

i came up with a isNumber function that will check if it is a number.

function isNumber(i) {
    return !isNaN(i && i !== true ? Number(i) : parseFloat(i)) && [Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY, Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY].indexOf(i) === -1;
}

console.log(isNumber(Infinity));
console.log(isNumber("asdf"));
console.log(isNumber(1.4));
console.log(isNumber(NaN));
console.log(isNumber(Number.MAX_VALUE));
console.log(isNumber("1.68"));

UPDATE: i noticed that this code fails for some parameters, so i made it better.

function isNumber(i) {//function for checking if parameter is number
if(!arguments.length) {
throw new SyntaxError("not enough arguments.");
	} else if(arguments.length > 1) {
throw new SyntaxError("too many arguments.");
	} else if([Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY, Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY].indexOf(i) !== -1) {
throw new RangeError("number cannot be \xB1infinity.");
	} else if(typeof i === "object" && !(i instanceof RegExp) && !(i instanceof Number) && !(i === null)) {
throw new TypeError("parameter cannot be object/array.");
	} else if(i instanceof RegExp) {
throw new TypeError("parameter cannot be RegExp.");
	} else if(i == null || i === undefined) {
throw new ReferenceError("parameter is null or undefined.");
	} else {
return !isNaN(i && i !== true ? Number(i) : parseFloat(i)) && (i === i);
	}
}
console.log(isNumber(Infinity));
console.log(isNumber(this));
console.log(isNumber(/./ig));
console.log(isNumber(null));