Infinite while loop

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Why does this bring an infinite loop?

  **Your code so far**


// Setup
var myArray = [];
var i = 5;

while (i <= 5) {
myArray.push(i);
i--;
}
// Only change code below this line

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Iterate with JavaScript While Loops

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while (i <= 5) {
  myArray.push(i);
  i--;
}

Because it is checking (i <= 5), and you are decrementing i, i will always be less than or equal to 5.

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The condition says “while i is less than or equal to 5, loop”. And you start i at five and go down.

Ah snap

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@kevinSmith and @DanCouper thank you for the help.

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