Question

what does == mean? i see it in programming and i saw it again just now. is it a mathematical symbol??

Answer 1

Isn't it an equality operator? It tests the value on the left to what's on the right.

Answer 2

@lgbasallote Supposedly we have
\[a==b\]
This is a symbol for checking the equality of the two
mostly used along if and else statement

Answer 3

what's the difference with =?

Answer 4

=
on the other hand assigns the value of right variable to the left
a=b
a's value will be set the value of b

Answer 5

Strictly in programming

Answer 6

im not getting it..sorry...i just cant imagine it

Answer 7

== is a condition?

Answer 8

In programming (eg C++) = is the assignment operator

Ex:

If you wanted to assign the value of 5 to x, then you would type

"int x = 5;"

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== is the equality test operator. You use this to test to see if two things are equal to each other


So if x is 5, then x == 5 would return true, but something like 2 == 3 would return false

Answer 9

oh i see...so it's only used in programming? it's not a mathematical symbol?

Answer 10

it's mostly used in programming although mathematica uses it too

Answer 11

but mathematica is both a programming and math environment, so that makes a bit of sense

Answer 12

lol i guess i asked in the wrong section huh =)) i thought it was mathematics because i saw a logic question and it had that notation

Answer 13

math and logic are hard to separate, so you're in the right section