How can we store numbers inside a variable in javascript??

var variableName = number; ...is the way to store a number, just like any variable

var myNumber = 17;

Simple as that!

Turns out that "name" is a reserved word...

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_reserved.asp

I don't know why it does that to tell you the truth, but if you call your variable something other than name, it works. Actually quite strange...

var anyVariableName = 12;
console.log(anyVariableName + 4);

will print 16 to the console, but with var name, it will concatenate them. Not sure why. As far as I know, name is not a reserved keyword or anything...

but when i used this code

var name=12; console.log(2+name);

the console is displayin 212 instead of 14. But when I use any other operator instead of '+', the answer is correct. Why is that so??

Thanks for helping me out .

btw can you just tell me how you display your code inside that black box. I am new to treehouse forums

oh thank you!!!