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Learn ECMAScript

You're reading from   Learn ECMAScript Discover the latest ECMAScript features in order to write cleaner code and learn the fundamentals of JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788620062
Length 298 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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MEHUL MOHAN MEHUL MOHAN
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Preface 1. Getting Started with ECMAScript 2. Knowing Your Library FREE CHAPTER 3. Using Iterators 4. Asynchronous Programming 5. Modular Programming 6. Implementing the Reflect API 7. Proxies 8. Classes 9. JavaScript on the Web 10. Storage APIs in JavaScript 11. Web and Service Workers 12. Shared Memory and Atomics 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Doing math

ES6 and above add a lot of new methods to the Math object, related to trigonometry, arithmetic, and miscellaneous. This lets developers use native methods instead of external math libraries. Native methods are optimized for performance and have better decimal precision.

Trigonometry-related operations

Often there is a need to use mathematical functions related to trigonometry, exponential, logarithmic, and so on. JavaScript provides native methods for that to make our work easy.

The following example code, which shows all trigonometry-related methods that are added to the Math object:

console.log(Math.sinh(0)); //hyberbolic sine of a value
console.log(Math.cosh(0)); //hyberbolic cosine of a value
console...
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