Yesterday, I looked through the examples of Raphaël and found the following line of code in an animation demo:

+!!(this.cx - 100)

I was baffled by the sheer amount of operators in front of the brackets. What do they actually do? So I switched to WriteCodeOnline and typed in some examples. The following table presents the results:

value ! !! +!!
undefined true false 0
null true false 0
0 true false 0
number != 0 false true 1

So, the sole purpose of +!! is to get a 0 or 1 from whatever value is passed to it.