Sum All Numbers in a Range confusion

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Hi everyone,
I am trying to understand what’s going on with my code. It seems that if arr[1] >= 10, the result is always 0. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

Your code so far


"use strict";

var sumAll = (arr) => {
  arr.sort();

  let sum = 0,
      min = arr[0],
      max = arr[1];

  for(let i=min;i<=max;i++) sum += i;

  return sum;
}

console.log(sumAll([1, 4]));

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:

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The clue you need is in the instructions “The lowest number will not always come first.”

3

What about arr.sort() ? Doesn’t it change the original state of the array?

4

the sort() function by default sorts by converting data to the unicode and then sorting, unless you give it a function to execute. Here is the link to the MDN article:


And try this version of the code.

arr.sort(function(a, b) { return a - b; });

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@zakattack194 Thank you very much for the clarification.

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