只是出于好奇。
typeof NaN是number似乎不太符合逻辑。就像NaN === NaN或NaN == NaN返回false。这是JavaScript的特性之一吗，或者有什么原因吗?
编辑:谢谢你的回答。然而，让人明白这不是一件容易的事情。阅读答案和维基我明白了更多，但仍然，一句话像
与NaN的比较总是返回无序结果，即使是与NaN本身比较也是如此。比较谓词是信号或非信号，信号版本表示此类比较的无效异常。等式和不等式谓词是非信号，因此x = x返回false可用于测试x是否为静态NaN。
让我头晕目眩。如果有人能把它翻译成人类(而不是数学家)可读的语言，我会很感激。
当前回答
Javascript uses NaN to represent anything it encounters that can't be represented any other way by its specifications. It does not mean it is not a number. It's just the easiest way to describe the encounter. NaN means that it or an object that refers to it could not be represented in any other way by javascript. For all practical purposes, it is 'unknown'. Being 'unknown' it cannot tell you what it is nor even if it is itself. It is not even the object it is assigned to. It can only tell you what it is not, and not-ness or nothingness can only be described mathematically in a programming language. Since mathematics is about numbers, javascript represents nothingness as NaN. That doesn't mean it's not a number. It means we can't read it any other way that makes sense. That's why it can't even equal itself. Because it doesn't.
其他回答
从类型的角度来看，NaN是一个数字，但不是像1、2或329131这样的普通数字。“不是一个数字”的名字指的是表示的值是特殊的，是关于IEEE格式规范领域，而不是javascript语言领域。
它的意思是不是一个数字。这不是javascript的特性，而是常见的计算机科学原理。
从http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN:
There are three kinds of operation which return NaN: Operations with a NaN as at least one operand Indeterminate forms The divisions 0/0, ∞/∞, ∞/−∞, −∞/∞, and −∞/−∞ The multiplications 0×∞ and 0×−∞ The power 1^∞ The additions ∞ + (−∞), (−∞) + ∞ and equivalent subtractions. Real operations with complex results: The square root of a negative number The logarithm of a negative number The tangent of an odd multiple of 90 degrees (or π/2 radians) The inverse sine or cosine of a number which is less than −1 or greater than +1.
所有这些值可能都不相同。NaN的一个简单测试是测试value == value为false。
我们可以认为NaN是一个特殊情况对象。在本例中，NaN的对象表示一个没有数学意义的数字。数学中还有一些特殊情况的对象，比如INFINITE等等。
你仍然可以用它做一些计算，但这会产生奇怪的行为。
更多信息在这里:http://www.concentric.net/~ttwang/tech/javafloat.htm(基于java，不是javascript)
这只是因为NaN是JS中Number对象的一个属性，它与它是否是一个数字无关。
如果使用jQuery，我更喜欢isNumeric检查类型:
console.log($.isNumeric(NaN)); // returns false
console.log($.type(NaN)); // returns number
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.isNumeric/
