You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about

var biggerNumber = Math.max(a,b);

var a = 'a';
var b = 'c';

Math.max(a,b) // Nan
biggerNumber(a,b) // 'c'

Sorry brah! :)

@aswinramakrish The thing is called biggerNumber. The second it gets fed letters I'd assume something has gone really, really, really wrong.

Are you saying 'a' is not a number?

But 'a' is a number... Just not in base10! How should the program know in which base we're in?

I'm not sure what base 10 has to do here. In JS, 'a' < 'c' translates to 'a'.charCodeAt(0) < 'c'.charCodeAt(0) which is 97 < 99. So you can't really say 'a' and 'c' aren't numbers especially when it comes to comparisons. Even ' ' has a number value associated with it.