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doc: add docs for AssertionError 
Fixes: #12274
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Mandeep Singh committed Jul 16, 2017
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System-level errors are generated as augmented `Error` instances, which are
detailed [here](#errors_system_errors).

## Class: AssertionError

A subclass of `Error` that indicates the failure of an assertion. Such errors
commonly indicate inequality of actual and expected parameters.
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IMO this could as well be "values" instead of "parameters", still LGTM.


For example:

```js
assert.equal(1, 2);
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I'd recommend using strictEqual() here to help set readers up for success :-)

// AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: 1 == 2
```

## Class: RangeError

A subclass of `Error` that indicates that a provided argument was not within the
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