Question

To make it more generic … I change the prototype of Number object in Javascript by doing this

Number.prototype.ceil = function() { return Math.ceil(this); }; 

Now 2.3.ceil() returns 3 and 2.ceil() throws exception.
But if I do b=2 and then do b.ceil() , it works fine!! So, basically it is still a problem of javascript.

Answer 1

The method is Math.ceil, it’s not an instance method.

var b = 2;
console.log(Math.ceil(b));

b = 2.3;
console.log(Math.ceil(b));

It looks like it would be trivial to create a prototype method that can do this:

Number.prototype.ceil = function() {
    return Math.ceil(this);
};

console.log(2.3.ceil());

It also looks like JavaScript reserves the first decimal in numeric literals for adding decimals to the number. This is a language feature. To get around this, you need two decimals:

2.ceil(); // does not work
2.3.ceil(); // does work
2..ceil(); // does work