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Constants

    You can use const anywhere you can use let to declare a variable. You use it for variables whose value will not change.

    Many programmers consider it a best practice to use it for any variable that that does not specifically need to be mutable to avoid unintended side effects from accidentally reassigning a value.

    const s = "constant";
    console.log(s, typeof s);
    
    // error: can't assign value to a constant
    // s = "nope";
    
    const n = 500000000;
    console.log(n, typeof n);
    
    const d = 3e20 / n;
    console.log(d, typeof d);
    
    console.log(Math.sin(n));
      
    
    constant string
    500000000 number
    600000000000 number
    -0.28470407323754404