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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Build a Random Number Guessing Game

Nathan Marshall
Nathan Marshall
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Posted by Nathan Marshall
Nathan Marshall
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Why is the game asking to pick a number between 1 and 6, yet the answer is could still be 6?

Shouldn't the random number always be between both values 1 and 6? At the end of the video it states that the number was 6. If so how would you code this so its strict?

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
230,688 Points

The word "between" is being used to describe an inclusive range, which is perhaps more commonly indicated by the word "through" in American English.

This usage is perhaps derived from SQL, where "between" is a functional keyword that always indicates an inclusive range.

Nathan Marshall
Nathan Marshall
6,031 Points
Nathan Marshall
Nathan Marshall
6,031 Points

This makes a lot of sense thank you Steven!