Interviewer: Can (a==1 && a==2 && a==3) Ever Evaluate to ‘true’ in JavaScript?

Yes, it can be true, and there are 6 ways — amazing!

fatfish
4 min readSep 18, 2023
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Recently, I was asked a very interesting interview question: Can (a== 1 && a==2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true in JavaScript?. I almost lost the job opportunity because I couldn’t answer.

At that moment, I was shocked by the question and thought the interviewer was joking.

But when I saw his “smile”, a feeling of “you must not know the answer” crossed through my mind. It was definitely not an easy problem to solve.

The article will give 6 professional answers. Let’s start right away.

Solution 1: valueOf && toString

The first solution is very simple, and I’m sure you’ll have an idea once you’ve read this code.

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