Help with simple if which is acting oddly.

[MadnessRed]

I have this code...

 

if(a > b){
	//Do some stuff
}else{
	alert(a + ' < ' + b);
}

And when I run it, I get this in the alert.

 

13941 < 892.07415525

 

Could someone please tell me why that this is the case, as 13941 is clearly greater than 892

[MadnessRed]

I think I worked it out. it was reading it as a string and that mean it was textually less than not numerically less that. Like if you sort alphanumerically 1-9,a-z, then 123 < 7 in the same wasy that abc < g.

 

So to fix I multiplied both by 1 which made them into numbers