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Yuval Gat
7,875 PointsHi, the || binary operator means "Or". If either one of the operands evaluates to true, the condition becomes true. For example:
if(5 < 7 || 6 > 8) {
alert("Hello!");
}
"Hello!" will be alerted, because one of the conditions (5 is smaller than 7) evaluates to true.
true || false // Which evaluates to true.
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherIt means "or". If (x == true || y == true) for example. If either one of those are true the entire condition will evaluate to true.
jason chan
31,009 Pointsmeans or
Dan Weru
47,649 PointsDan Weru
47,649 PointsHi Rewien It is OR operator. for instance,
valueOne || valueTwomeaning valueOne or valueTwo