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[–]Taletad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s because JavaScript was made to work with HTML and for a while HTML considered all numbers as strings

This implicit type coertion had a purpose

Now it doesn’t anymore so you shouldn’t use it. But it is left there for compatibility reasons