Number.sign() in javascript

Question

Wonder if there are any nontrivial ways of finding number\'s sign (signum function)?
May be shorter / faster / more elegant solutions than the obvious one

Answer 1

I don't see any practical sence of returning -0 and 0 from Math.sign so my version is:

function sign(x) {
    x = Number(x);
    if (isNaN(x)) {
        return NaN;
    }
    if (x === -Infinity || 1 / x < 0) {
        return -1;
    }
    return 1;
};

sign(100);   //  1
sign(-100);  // -1
sign(0);     //  1
sign(-0);    // -1