What is the JavaScript >>> operator and how do you use it?

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Published on 2009-11-30T20:59:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 1:23 UTC
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I was looking at code from Mozilla that add a filter method to Array and it had a line of code that confused me.

var len = this.length >>> 0;

I have never seen >>> used in JavaScript before.
What is it and what does it do?

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