Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Comparison Operators

Aakash Srivastav
seal-mask
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
Aakash Srivastav
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points
Posted by Aakash Srivastav
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
Aakash Srivastav
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points

Comparing "number" and "letter"

At 2:47 , Deve is saying " if you compared a number and a letter, a number is less than a letter". What does that actually mean? I compared "a" > 3 and it result out "false".

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

Even though the video does not make it super clear he is actually specifically referring to comparing two strings, where one string contains a number. Something like this:

"a" > "3" // true

If the number is not stored in a string like in your example, then you will always get false due to the fact that JavaScript can't compare the "greatness" of strings and numbers directly.