Numbers

Basic math

JavaScript includes a handful of basic arithmetic operators:

// Add
// logs 4
console.log(2 + 2);

// Subtract
// logs 3
console.log(4 - 1);

// Divide
// logs 2
console.log(4 / 2);

// Multiply
// logs 10
console.log(5 * 2);

// Remainder
// logs 1 (2 goes into 5 twice, with 1 left over)
console.log(5 % 2);

You can combine operators. Group the items you want to run first/together with parentheses.

let total = (3 + 1) * 2;

// logs 8 (3 plus 1 is 4, multiplied by 2)
console.log(total);

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