Why is Nan bigger than any number?

Question

A practical example of this statement is:

parseInt(50) > parseInt('a');

When running this operation on a console, for example, the result is false. The real code that brought me to this question is similar to this:

variableB = parseInt(jQuery('some-element').html());
if(parseInt(variableA) > variableB)
     // Faça isso.
else
     // Faça outra coisa.

Sometimes the some-element will not be filled with anything at all, causing the value of variableB was NaN. But how some-element was not filled with anything, I would like it to be evaluated as if it had been filled with 0. That is, if variableA is a positive greater than 0, the comparison should return true.

Answer 1

Based on the English OS question you "copied"

Edit -

Based on the English OS question you "did there and here"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26982881/why-nan-is-greater-than-any-number-in-javascript

Checks with Nan always give FALSE.

Nan is no bigger than any number

Nan is not equal to any number

Nan is not less than no number

Only boolean check will be false.