#4) Explain Implicit Type Coercion in JavaScript❔
Mayank Yadav
Posted on July 25, 2021
💠The process of automatic or implicit conversion of values from one data type to another.
💠It takes place when the operands of an expression are of different data types.
String Coercion
✅It occurs when ' +, -, /, * ' operator is used.
✅When a number is added to a string, the number type is always converted into string type.
✅When a number is divided, subtracted or multiplied to a string, the string is always converted into number type.👇
Boolean Coercion
✅When a Boolean is added to a Number, the Boolean value is converted to a number.
✅A Boolean value can be represented as 0 for false or 1 for true.
⚠All values except 0, 0n, -0, "", undefined, null, NaN are truthy values.
Equality Coercion
✅The '==' operator compares values but not types.
✅Returns true because both 'a' and 'b' are converted to the same type and then compared. Hence the operands are equal.👇
✅Returns false as string 'true' is coerced to NaN which is not equal to 1 or true in Boolean, so returns false.👆
Posted on July 25, 2021
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