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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing the + + in the middle returns NaN

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Indeed, the unary plus operator tries to convert whatever is after it to a number if it isn't already. Since 'a' is not a valid number, it returns NaN (not a number)