I actually do agree that Number is a better name -- particularly for a language that's many people's first experience with programming these days. My comment wa

I actually do agree that Number is a better name -- particularly for a language that's many people's first experience with programming these days. My comment was a tad sarcastic. Though if they're not calling them floats, maybe they could have also come up with a better name for NaN. If they used, say, "ERR", it would be something many people had seen before (from calculators) and we'd get to stop hearing people bitch about "NotANumber is a number WTF". (I suppose "they" in this case must be the hypothetical well-treated team that didn't develop JavaScript instead of a frustrated Brendan Eich.)