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Creating Number Objects Rather than Performing String-to-Number Conversions

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/*
JavaScript Unleashed, Third Edition
by Richard Wagner and R. Allen Wyke 

ISBN: 067231763X
Publisher Sams CopyRight 2000

*/<html>
<head>
  <script language="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript">
  <!--
    // Add description property to Number objects
    Number.prototype.description = null;
    // Speed Limit Numbers
    slHighway = new Number(65);
    slCity = new Number(35);
    slSchoolZone = new Number(25);
    // Add Descriptions
    slHighway.description = "Interstate Highway Speed Limit";
    slCity.description = "City Speed Limit";
    slSchoolZone.description = "School Zone Speed Limit";
    // Subtract num2 from num1 and display the value of the difference
    // between the two along with the original number descriptions.
    function tellDifference(num1, num2) {
      diff = num1 - num2;
      document.write("The speed difference between " + num1.description +
                          " and " + num2.description + " is " + diff);    }

  //-->
  </script>
</head>
<body>
  <script language="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript">
  <!--
    // Call function
    tellDifference(slHighway,  slCity);
  //-->
  </script>
</body>
</html>
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