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Joseph Davis
Courses Plus Student 2,022 PointsWhat is even the math behind this?
I don't understand the logic of the math.
1 Answer
andren
28,558 PointsI'm not entirely sure what you mean by "logic behind the math" as this section does not center on math, but on logic operators. But I can provide an explanation of how the comparisons and conditional operators gets evaluated. If this is not what you were wondering about then please clarify your question a bit, and I'll try to provide a better answer.
Comparisons are evaluated to Booleans (True or False) simply based on whether the statement they form is actually correct or incorrect. For example 5 > 3 (5 greater than 3) would equal True due to the fact that 5 is in fact greater than 3. 4 < 2 (4 less than 2) would equal False because 4 is not less than 2.
Conditional operators like || (OR) and && (AND) evaluates to True or False based on what the conditions you provide to them evaluates to. For example 3 > 1 && 5 < 1 (3 greater than 1 AND 5 less than 1) would equal False because while the first condition is True, the second is False, and the AND operator will only return True if both conditions evaluates to True. The OR operator will evaluate to True if either of the conditions are true. So 3 > 1 || 5 < 1 would evaluate to True because the first condition is True.