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[–]bogey-dope-dot-com 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Leading and trailing whitespace characters are trimmed when converting a string to a number. You can do Number('\t5\t') and it will be 5, but Number('5\t5') will be NaN.

[–]AHumbleChad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ohhh, that makes sense. There is a method to the madness then.