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Challenge Understanding Uninitialized Variables
When JavaScript variables are declared, they have an initial value of undefined
. If you do a mathematical operation on an undefined variable your result will be NaN
which means "Not a Number". If you concatenate a string with an undefined variable, you will get a literal string of "undefined".
Basically this means that before you do any operations with them you must assign an initial value at some point.