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Discussion on: New Number() is truthy or falsy?

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Nucu Labs •

Oh, JavaScript and it's mysterious ways.

const zero = new Number(0);

if (zero) {
  console.log("zero is truthy!");
} else {
  console.log('zero is false!');
}
zero is truthy! base.js:8272:41
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if (0) {
  console.log("zero is truthy!");
} else {
  console.log('zero is false!');
}
zero is false!
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Mehul Lakhanpal •

new Number() creates a object wrapper. So it turns out to be true