Arguments Optional - NaN function

JavaScript
1

A little confused on this code why it is not working for the last two cases. As far as I understand it JavaScript doesn’t have tight ‘type casting’ like other langs, so why does ‘NaN’ not work here ?

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Your code so far

function addTogether(a, b) {
  if (isNaN(a)) {
    return undefined;
  }
  
  if (b != null) {
  return a + b;
  }
  
  return function Sum(x) { 
    if (isNaN(x)) {
     return undefined;
    } else { 
     return a + x; 
    }
  };
}

addTogether(2,3);

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2

isNan() doesn’t return true if the argument is a type other than a number. It returns true if the argument is specifically NaN. Look at using typeof instead.

3

Thanks Ariel, I will look into that def.

Best,

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