Relational operators
What Relational operators means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Operators that compare values and produce a Boolean result of true or false, including equal to, less than, greater than, not equal to, less than or equal to and greater than or equal to.
Operators that compare two values and yield true or false: equal to, less than, greater than, not equal to, less than or equal to, greater than or equal to.
Topics that use Relational operators
- Algorithms (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Operators (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Modulus
- Arithmetic operators
- Binary search
- Bubble sort
- Linear search
- Logic error
- Logical operators
- Merge sort
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