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Malcolm Horal
5,518 PointsWhat if both inputs are not numbers? is the OR-operator really enough?
Shouldnt we use: if ( (isNan(upper) OR isNAN(lower)) OR (isNan(upper) AND isNAN(lower) ))
any thoughts?
2 Answers
Antti Lylander
9,686 PointsOne || operator is enough. If the first test is true, the second doesn't even get evaluated. It simply does not matter anymore because we already know that either of the values is not a number and we need to throw an error.
true || true -> true
false || false -> false
true || false -> true
false || true -> true
Luc de Brouwer
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 17,939 PointsThe logical OR operator (||) returns the boolean value true if either or both operands is true and returns false otherwise. So when one value evaluates to true, the rest of the condition will be ignored, since the first condition is met. So if either are false, the condition evaluaties also to true, you see why we use the logical OR?
If NaN(first) || NaN(second) is good enough since if they are both false, the condition will also be true