Can someone explain why my code isn't working

Curriculum Help
1

this is from the Use Multiple Conditional (Ternary) Operators challenge;
thanks

function checkSign(num) {
  return (num === (num)) ? "positive"
  : (num === (-(num))) ? "negative"
  :  "zero";

}

checkSign(10);
2

this is always true, a number is always equal to itself

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3

ok thanks for the correction.
Also aside from

num  < 0 ? "negative"

Which other way can one check a number is negative or not?

4

why do you need a different way?

but you could use Math.abs to do what you were trying to do there
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Math/abs

you could raise a number to the power of that number, with Math.pow, if the result is less than one the number you need to check is negative

5

was curious :sweat_smile:
thanks tho