Agreed, but sometimes practicing this type of coding style in easier task make it easy on harder tests with a max char length

It's a bitwise OR operator which in this case (against 0) essentially cuts of all non integers. Here it's used as a somewhat crude and hacky way to avoid Math.floor() or parseInt().

My advise would be to be careful using it in your projects. The | 0 is easily overlooked and can leave your future you searching forever where your math doesn't add up. Math.floor() does a better job at being self-explanatory. Since the example above is very short, the | 0 doesn't hurt for the simple purpose it serves.

Also look at stanleyvarga's comment. He also makes a solid point not to use it everywhere.