Is there any way to use a numeric type as an object key?

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No, this is not possible. The key will always be converted to a string. See Property Accessor docs

Property names must be strings. This means that non-string objects cannot be used as keys in the object. Any non-string object, including a number, is typecasted into a string via the toString method.

> var foo = {}
undefined

> foo[23213] = 'swag'
'swag'

> foo
{ '23213': 'swag' }

> typeof(Object.keys(foo)[0])
'string'

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