[kittenfluff]

Responds "Yes" to

  9007199254740990, 9007199254740991, 9007199254740992

but "No" to

  9007199254740991, 9007199254740992, 9007199254740993

Presumably this is due to how Javascript handles integers, i.e. it uses the integer part of a float64, to wit

  > parseInt('9007199254740992')
  9007199254740992
  > parseInt('9007199254740993')
  9007199254740992

Edit: I think this is the code that actually reads the numbers the user enters, see [0]

  function l(){
      var a=h.exec(m[1]),f=null,g=null,n=null;
      return a&&(null!==a[1]&&a[1]&&(f=parseInt(a[1],10)),
          null!==a[2]&&a[2]&&(g=parseInt(a[2],10)),
          null!==a[3]&&a[3]&&(n=parseInt(a[3],10))),
      new e(f,g,n)
  }

Edit(2): Actually, I'm not so sure that's the correct code at all. They NYT game is capable of parsing floats correctly (e.g. it accepts 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 as a "Yes") so it's not just using parseInt.

[0] http://a1.nyt.com/assets/interactive/20150612-151638/js/foun...

[janka102]

The actual code seems to be from here [0]

on line 588 is the comparison

    var rightWrong = (inputData[0] < inputData[1]) & (inputData[1] < inputData[2]) ? right : wrong;

With a variable declaration on line 545 being

    var inputData = [NaN, NaN, NaN],
        revealed = false,
        right = "<p class = 'g-answer g-yes'>Yes!</p>",
        wrong = "<p class = 'g-answer g-no'>No.</p>";

And `inputData` is changed on text input on line 662

    $("#g-input input").each(function(i) {
        var val = $(this).val();
        inputData[i] = $.isNumeric(val) ? Number(val) : NaN;
    });

It uses the `Number()` function to convert from the input text to an actual number, so it can convert any number format defined by ES5[1] or ES6[2]. So in ES6 you can use binary (0b, 0B) and octal (0o, 0O) formatting along with exponential (1e-2) and hex (0x, 0X). Binary and octal works for me currently on Chrome 43 OS X.

[0] http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2015/06/16/puzzle/...

[1] http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-9.3.1

[2] http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-7.1.3.1

[mordrax]

yeah alright.. i think someone didn't actually get the point of the article hehe

[taigeair]

you broke it.