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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Making Decisions with Conditional Statements Build a Random Number Guessing Game

Posted by Anubhav Borgohain
Anubhav Borgohain
2,263 Points

can't I use Number instead of parseInt ? var guess = Number(prompt("enter a number"));

can't I use Number instead of parseInt ? var guess = Number(prompt("enter a number"));

2 Answers

Eric Butler
Eric Butler
33,512 Points

The short answer is yes you can use Number(), but Treehouse almost definitely doesn't include that as a "right" answer to its question/challenge, and there is a difference between Number() and parseInt(), which the good folks on StackOverflow have explained here.

Anubhav Borgohain
Anubhav Borgohain
2,263 Points
Anubhav Borgohain
Anubhav Borgohain
2,263 Points

thanks!