returning the higher value in logical operators in javascript

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I am practising the logical operators in JavaScript and fully understood the concepts, but It seems that I didn't with this equation.

    const one = 1;
    const two = 5;
    console.log(one && two);

Why in this case it returns five and not one, shouldn't be returned the first value since both are true ?

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2 Answers

From MDN on the && operator:

"If expr1 can be converted to true, returns expr2; else, returns expr1."

So in this case, 1 can be converted to true, so it returns the second value, 5.

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The LOGICAL && operator returns the last value if all other values are true, or else it will return the first non truthy value.

i.e. Java != JavaScript

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