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Ruby Ruby Operators and Control Structures Ruby Operators Greater Than

zachary hatsis
zachary hatsis
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Posted by zachary hatsis
zachary hatsis
1,072 Points

This question is so vague, what are they asking here?

I don't get what they are asking. they're just asking to do a check if a is greater than b? but don't specify if the value should return true or false...

"a" < "b"

2 Answers

Gene Osborne
Gene Osborne
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Gene Osborne
Gene Osborne
8,630 Points

"a" is less than "b" because each character is assigned a number value designated by the character encoding you are using (Ruby uses UTF-8).

In this encoding system "a" has the value of 97 and "b" has the value of "98".

So, when you compare them, Ruby uses their number values to determine which is greater.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

You're overthinking it. It's going to return either true or false, depending if a is greater than b. what it should return doesn't matter.

Currently, you've written that string a is less than string b. What it wants you to write is variable a greater than variable b. You're very close, you just need to adjust your answer a bit.