Comparison Operators

Part of the Fundamentals section of Coddy's JavaScript journey — lesson 15 of 77.

Comparison operators are used to compare two operands.

Sometimes we need to check whether an operand is bigger/smaller/... than another operand. The following table shows possible operators for comparison:

Operator	Meaning	Example
==	Equal	1 == 2 returns false
!=	Not Equal	1 != 2 returns true
>	Greater Than	1 > 2 returns false
<	Lower Than	1 < 2 returns true
>=	Greater or Equal	1 >= 2 returns false
<=	Lower or Equal	1 <= 2 returns true

The comparison operator returns true if the comparison is correct or false otherwise.

For example:

let var1 = 13
let var2 = 12
let var3 = var1 != var2

var3 will hold true because var1 and var2 are not equal

Remember the boolean type, var3 is a boolean.

Challenge

Beginner

Write a script that initializes 2 variables n1 and n2 with the values 8 and 9 (accordingly).

After that initialize another variable n3 that will hold whether n1 is bigger than n2.

Cheat sheet

Comparison operators are used to compare two operands and return true or false:

Operator	Meaning	Example
==	Equal	1 == 2 returns false
!=	Not Equal	1 != 2 returns true
>	Greater Than	1 > 2 returns false
<	Lower Than	1 < 2 returns true
>=	Greater or Equal	1 >= 2 returns false
<=	Lower or Equal	1 <= 2 returns true

Example usage:

let var1 = 13
let var2 = 12
let var3 = var1 != var2  // var3 holds true

Try it yourself

// Type your code below


// Don't change the line below
console.log(`n1 = ${n1}, n2 = ${n2}, n3 = ${n3}`)

Test yourself

This lesson includes a short quiz. Start the lesson to answer it and track your progress.

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