What condition is necessary to show that `sale` is `true`?

Frequently Asked Questions JavaScript FAQ
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let sale = true;
if (sale){
console.log(‘Time To Buy!’);
}

Am I doing something wrong here or is it a site issue.

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NaN works as false with me??

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 > NaN && true
<- NaN

AND short-circuits on falsy, so that means NaN is also falsy.

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Thank you! I was getting hung up on this point also, that we weren’t evaluating anything in the parenthesis, but this makes perfect sense after reading this :pray:

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Thank you mtf, NaN, I believe should as part of false statement. Correct?

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Correct. Good catch. It only took 32 months for someone to spot that.

NaN && true  =>  NaN

which indicates a short-circuit; therefore, falsy.

Too late to edit the post, but future readers will be set right if they get down to this one.

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For all of you that struggle with the 2nd step of the lesson, the console.log ‘Time to buy!’ you need to use the ‘SINGLE QUOTE’ for the string and not ``