MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 2.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference page 545

The following example assigns the value of the
without the use of the constructor:
var smallest:Number = Number.MIN_VALUE;
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0 - (became a native object in Flash Player 6,
which improved performance significantly).
Property summary
Modifiers Property
static MAX_VALUE:Number
static MIN_VALUE:Number
static NaN:Number
static NEGATIVE_INFINITY:Number
static POSITIVE_INFINITY:Number
Properties inherited from class Object
constructor (Object.constructor
property), prototype (Object.prototype
(Object.__resolve property)
Constructor summary
Signature
Number(num:Object)
property to a variable declared
MIN_VALUE
Description
The largest representable number (double-
precision IEEE-754).
The smallest representable number (double-
precision IEEE-754).
The IEEE-754 value representing Not A
Number (NaN).
Specifies the IEEE-754 value representing
negative infinity.
Specifies the IEEE-754 value representing
positive infinity.
property), __proto__ (Object.__proto__
property), __resolve
Description
Creates a new Number object.
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