In JavaScript, why does zero divided by zero return NaN, but any other divided by zero return Infinity?

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Because that’s how floating-point is defined (more generally than just Javascript). See for example:

Crudely speaking, you could think of 1/0 as the limit of 1/x as x tends to zero (from the right). And 0/0 has no reasonable interpretation at all, hence NaN.

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